The main elements that promote intimacy building and the main stages of intimacy.

The main elements that facilitate the establishment of intimacy and the main stages of intimacy

The main elements that promote the establishment of intimacy can be summarised into five:

1. Appropriate symmetry: Each person exhibits similar behavior; speaking in the same voice and in the same spirit, it is easy to resonate together;

2. Appropriate complementarity: the roles, behaviors and personal attributes are complementary; strengths and weaknesses complement each other and are mutually reinforcing, with a particular tendency to merge into one;

3. Intimacy: Includes characteristics such as warmth, understanding, communication, support, sharing, etc., and can be seen as essential for relationship building;

4. Passion: characterized by the arousal of physical desire, including any strong emotion that is satisfied by the partner;

5. Commitment includes the decision to commit oneself to a relationship and the effort to maintain it and is honored by action behavior.

REFERENCE:

Brehm, S. S., Miller, R. S., Perlman, D., & Campbell, S. M. (2002). Intimate relationships (p. 19). Boston: Mcgraw-Hill.