…I am certain of this one truth: men can achieve closeness without intimacy, while women can achieve intimacy without closeness.

For example, Bobbie knows every intimate detail of her dental hygienist’s private life. She doesn’t have a close relationship with her, but she knows more about the woman who cleans her teeth twice a year than I do about most of the guys I play basketball with every week. And still I feel a closeness with every one of them. Maybe it’s because I don’t know too much.

Author: Alan Eisenstock