intimacy

Artificial intimacy begins with the onset of infatuation, a “grab your brains with a vengeance” neurochemical reaction, which is notoriously short lived. But if you wake up to the sobering reality that you’ve existed on artificial compatibility, that doesn’t mean you can’t begin to build true intimacy.

A few weeks ago, as I was talking with one of my mentors, my answer to a question she asked me left me in...