Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
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Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more.
I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.
Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair.
That's the sign of a good relationship, when you can pick up a phone and it doesn't matter when the last time you spoke was.
Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.
I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.