Amorous Couple. An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotional intimacy.
   Although an intimate relationship is commonly a sexual relationship, it may also be a non-sexual relationship involving family, friends, or acquaintances. Emotional intimacy involves feelings of liking or loving one or more people, and may result in physical intimacy.
   Physical intimacy is characterized by romantic love, sexual activity, or other passionate attachment. These relationships play a central role in the overall human experience.
   Humans have a general desire to belong and to love, which is usually satisfied within an intimate relationship. Such relationships allow a social network for people to form strong emotional attachments.
   Intimacy involves the feeling of being in a close, personal association and belonging together. It is a familiar and very close affective connection with another as a result of a bond that is formed through knowledge and experience of the other. Genuine intimacy in human relationships requires dialogue, transparency, vulnerability, and reciprocity. Dalton discussed how anthropologists and ethnographic researchers access inside information from within a particular cultural setting by establishing networks of intimates capable to provide information unobtainable through formal channels. In human relationships, the meaning and level of intimacy
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