"Real Intimacy is a meeting between two souls,
an invitation to meet each other exactly where they are,
without expectation or agenda.
It doesn’t demand gifts and benefits, sexual prowess, conditional offerings.
It merely asks you to show up as you are, fully revealed and present.
It invites you to shed your masks and disguises,
to surrender to whatever is real for you in the moment.
Real intimacy meets you right where you live,
not where you or anyone else wants you to live.
It’s the big sigh of relief that arises when you finally know
that you don’t have to put on a show to feel seen or accepted.
Here we are, just as we are."
~ Jeff Brown