Article March 22, 1982 Issue

Satisfying our hunger for closeness

CAROLYN F. RUFFIN

You love him for his tenderness, his listening ear. You love her for her courage and her spontaneity. That's what started this very special friendship, anyway. Now you find you think a lot about your friend. You want to be close, to share as much as possible.

Naturally, when we find so much of what we love in another person, we want to be with him or her, to stay close. With closeness in a relationship there may also come a physical yearning, almost an insatiable hunger for that person's presence. What do we do with those feelings?

If we look around for answers, we'll surely find lots of human advice and alternatives. Books, magazines, movies, and television shows portray love as romantic and as what one film called "endless."

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