Difficulty with Intimacy

     Intimacy involves sharing our own reality and receiving the reality of others without either party judging that reality or trying to change it.

     Codependents with the core symptom of difficulty identifying who they are (their reality) and sharing appropriately cannot be intimate in a healthy way, since intimacy means sharing their reality. Without the sharing of healthy intimacy, codependents cannot check out their immature perceptions and they continue to have painful problems in their relationships with others.