Getting Close to Others 5 Steps: How to Develop Intimate Relationships and Still Be True to Yourself: The Relationship Formula Workbook Series

Many desire an emotionally intimate relationship and yet react to the prospect by pulling away. They do this to obscure their true selves for one of two reasons. They fear rejection if they are to honestly reveal themselves to another. Or, it may be because of a foreboding sense that their identity will be taken away if they truly open up to another.

In either case, by pulling away they make themselves seem aloof and guarded and that makes rejection all the more likely. When it happens, th...