Before exploring the essential nature of intimacy and what it's for, we examine the paradigmatic distortions at the root of the Palestine-Israel conflict, which is a geopolitical relationality catastrophe that predictably cannot resolve until the root issues are addressed. On the subject of personal relationality, we discuss the critical surrender to intimacy as a vehicle for healing childhood wounds, how polyamory is an understandable but immature flight from that truth, and how the pursuit of fulfillment in intimacy reveals what’s in its way.