Many of us experience love. We may love our Mum or Dad. We may love our pet rabbit. We may also have a crush on a pop star or a movie star.
We hear a lot about love when it comes to dating and relationships. But how is loving a boyfriend, girlfriend, or partner different from loving our Mum or Dad? How is it the same? Is loving a partner the same as having sex with them? Is it different? Is a crush the same thing as love?
And what does intimacy mean? Does ‘being intimate’ with someone always mean having sex with them? Are there other ways people can show love to each other, or be intimate with each other? What’s scary about love and intimacy? What’s great about it?
Let’s have a conversation!
Videos
How Do You Support Your Partner and Show Them Love?
Resources
The website – recently featured in the Netflix series Sex Education – celebrates diversity and combats shame.
British Columbia’s largest sexual health nonprofit, with lots of info and services on their website.
A free, anonymous telephone and email info hotline where you can ask any question about sex.
News
For Valentine’s Day, autism advocate Kaelynn Partlow released an Instagram Reel on different ways people express love.
