Intimacy Tolerance: Coupling

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
-Bertrand Russell

How close do you want to be in relationships?

Human development is the outcome of growth, which requires some level of pain.

This pain, either that you’ve directly experienced or inherited intergenerationally, results in frustrations; with relationships, with difficult personalities, with your own self esteem, sexual performance, or negative habits.

If pain goes on too long, you are motivated to seek help, either via self-help or professionally.

In psychotherapy, you start with a relationship pain point and a true desire, spoken or unspoken. In focusing on the present issue, using a psychodynamic theoretical lens, you explore with your therapist any early unresolved trauma and negative modeling from childhood and adolescence. You analyze relationship conflict and bonding patterns to detect and work through early repressed grief, anger, betrayal.

As you feel less burdened by the past, you implement new habits of thoughts, feelings and behaviors.

As this competence grows, true intuition and confidence blooms. With care, nurturing, and skill development, you can now turn your true heart’s desire into reality.

Love Sex Trust Productions ecosystem of products mirrors this developmental arc, organized into six developmental categories, you can use yourself, with your partner and/or a counselor.

Intimacy Tolerance: Coupling

Want guidance on your own present or past relationship?

Guiding My Relationship: Deepen, Reignite/Repair, Decide

The Intimacy Tolerance: Coupling developmental category features concrete ways to explore you and your partner’s deeper feelings about attachment and autonomy. Instead of focusing on how to perform in a relationship, being more communicative and nice, we built resources to help you answer, “How comfortable am I with attachment?” “How do my patterns of bonding and conflict function for me psychologically?” and “How does the past influence my ability to trust myself and others in close relationships?”