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Defining Intimacy: Aquinas, Psychology, and the Fourfold Intimacy Model
For Couples James B. Walther, MA, ABS For Couples James B. Walther, MA, ABS

Defining Intimacy: Aquinas, Psychology, and the Fourfold Intimacy Model

Intimacy is often reduced to sex or feelings, but marriage demands something deeper. Drawing on Aristotle, Aquinas, and modern psychology, James Walther explains the Fourfold Intimacy Model — spiritual, intellectual, emotional, and physical — showing how true intimacy is an interpersonal state of secure vulnerability that engages the whole person.

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