Internet Intimacy is New for Me
When my kids were younger and I wanted to have a difficult conversation with one of them, I would wait until we were driving alone in the car. I found that it was easier for me to broach the subject when my gaze was fixed on the road, and it was more likely I would get some feedback if my son or daughter didn’t have to make eye contact either. In that circumstance, the avoidance of eye contact fostered intimacy.
But most of the time intimacy …

Like many of you, I approach a technological adventure such as blogging with trepidation. But I also relish the opportunity to communicate with people I haven’t met about our common life experience. If I have learned anything in over thirty years of editing, writing about, and living “women’s issues,” it is that we do best when we share our stories. In fact, studies are finding that when a woman has the support of a “circle of trust” – women she can count on – the stress-reducing and pleasure-enhancing hormone oxytocin …