What breaks intimacy

The following does:

• Taking a position, or ego
• Desires
• Expectations
• Insensitivity or too much sensitivity
• Judgments
• Taking intimacy for granted
• Finding imperfection in yourself or others
• Grumbling or lack of gratitude
• Lack of vivek or vairagya – discretion or dispassion

Intimacy is dissolving into infinity, which brings you to the moment. You go beyond the events. Look beyond the events, dissolve into infinity, and be in the moment.

That is the way to maintain intimacy.