TOUCH & TENDERNESS
Increasing intimacy with tender touch.
By Gayatri
When you think about someone touching you, what’s your first gut response? Is it an opening into the possibility of a yummy and nourishing connection? Or a contraction away from a potentially invasive and unwanted contact?
Perhaps it depends on who is touching you and the intention you perceive behind the touch. For many people in our society, touch has sexual connotations. The only touch they give or receive is from someone they are in a romantic or sexual relationship with. This can lead us to feel wary of physical contact. What if there is a hidden agenda? What if they try to take something from you that you are not ready to give?