ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the ways and means we can use in order to create and achieve acknowledging intimacy between us as partners. It examines how this affects our children and how we, in a joint effort with our children, can develop an explicit acknowledging intimacy. People who have grown up with an insecure attachment pattern may, in general, have difficulty maintaining eye contact. When eye contact has been established, the time comes to investigate and feel the “space between” the partners, who are now sitting quite close, face to face. The cornerstone of the Acknowledging Dialogue is a mirroring process, which, in efficient and simple ways, can open up our own and our partner’s eyes, ears, and heart in a completely new way. The Acknowledging Dialogue can always begin and end with each partner expressing an appreciation of the other, as it is impossible to be appreciated too much.
