The document discusses intimacy in marriage through a collection of quotes. It defines intimacy as a one-on-one phenomenon that requires understanding, openness, communication and mutual valuing between spouses. Several quotes note that intimacy is important for a healthy marriage and that a lack of intimacy can negatively impact other aspects of the relationship. Maintaining intimacy requires courage, commitment and continually strengthening the connection between spouses.

1. Intimacy in Marriage
"You can't love a crowd the
same way you can love a
person. And a crowd can't love
you the way a single person can
love you. Intimacy doesn't
scale. Not really. Intimacy is a
one-on-one phenomenon. "
- Hugh Macleod
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

2. Intimacy in Marriage
"When things don't work well
in the bedroom, they don't
work well in the living room
either."
- William Masters
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

3. Intimacy in Marriage
"There's nothing more intimate
in life than simply being
understood. And
understanding someone else."
- Brad Meltzer
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

4. Intimacy in Marriage
"The more connections you and
your lover make, not just between
your bodies, but between your
minds, your hearts, and your
souls, the more you will
strengthen the fabric of your
relationship, and the more real
moments you will experience
together."
- Barbara de Angelis
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

5. Intimacy in Marriage
"The married are those who
have taken the terrible risk of
intimacy and, having taken
it, know life without intimacy
to be impossible."
- Carolyn Heilbrun
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

6. Intimacy in Marriage
"The ideal that marriage aims at
is that of spiritual union
through the physical. The
human love that it incarnates is
intended to serve as a stepping
stone to divine or universal
love. "
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

7. Intimacy in Marriage
"Passion is the quickest to
develop, and the quickest to
fade. Intimacy develops more
slowly, and commitment more
gradually still."
- Robert Sternberg
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

8. Intimacy in Marriage
"Oh, the miraculous energy that
flows between two people who
care enough to get beyond
surfaces and games, who are
willing to take the risks of being
totally open, of listening, of
responding with the whole heart.
How much we can do for each
other. "
- Alex Noble
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

9. Intimacy in Marriage
"My whole working philosophy
is that the only stable
happiness for mankind is that it
shall live married in blessed
union to woman-kind -
intimacy, physical and
psychical between a man and
his wife."
- David Herbert Lawrence
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

10. Intimacy in Marriage
"It's funny; in this era of e-mail
and voice mail and all those
things that even I did not grow
up with, a plain old paper letter
takes on amazing intimacy."
- Elizabeth Kostova
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

11. Intimacy in Marriage
"If ever a man and his wife,
who pass nights as well as days
together, absolutely lay aside
all good breeding, their
intimacy will soon degenerate
into a coarse familiarity,
infallibly productive of
contempt or disgust."
- Lord Chesterfield
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

12. Intimacy in Marriage
"I think sex is very interesting
for most people, but I'm
interested in sex as a way of
communication, I'm not that
interested in the fantasy version
of a sex scene."
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

13. Intimacy in Marriage
"He is not a lover who does not
love forever."
- Euripides
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

14. Intimacy in Marriage
"For a marriage relationship to
flourish, there must be
intimacy. It takes an enormous
amount of courage to say to
your spouse, 'This is me. I'm
not proud of it -- in fact, I'm a
little embarrassed by it -- but
this is who I am.'"
- Bill Hybels
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

15. Intimacy in Marriage
"Communication leads to
community, that is, to
understanding, intimacy and
mutual valuing."
- Rollo May
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

16. Intimacy in Marriage
"Chains do not hold a marriage
together. It is threads, hundreds
of tiny threads which sew
people together through the
years. That is what makes a
marriage last --more than
passion or even sex!"
- Simone Signoret
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime