Love is not intimacy.

Emotional intimacy and love often go together, but love in a relationship does not guarantee intimacy. Specifically, you can have the caring, attachment, and emotional support of love without the emotional availability, openness and vulnerability of intimacy.

Love is just one part of the larger landscape of connection in personal relationships. And it is intimacy rather than love that brings emotional depth to the connection and permits a deeper knowing of yourself and your partner.