This was really impactful for me; the analogy is, your life/your heart is a room (or an apartment, a space, etc) and relationships are all about inviting people into that room. Intimacy is letting them into the room and knowing that they might touch stuff, move furniture around, or change the way youโve laid the room out. Transparency is letting people see the room, but keeping a glass between them and the spaceโ they can see, but not touch. I think relationally we all have impulses toward transparency instead of intimacy, and itโs easy to say โI let you look at my room, that was intimacy,โ while maintaining the glass that separates people from the room. Be intimate! Let people pick up the tchotchkes in your heart and move the furniture.