4 Reason Women Fear Intimacy

Finding love brings excitement and fulfillment; while also creating anxiety and fears of rejection and potential loss. One of the reasons why women are single is the fear of intimacy. Fear of intimacy- is an individual who has fears and problems being emotionally and physically close to another person. It  also results in short lived relationships, and causes loneliness as it encourages superficial relationships.

Women with poor body image will often have fear of intimacy, because she may think that every men they gets with will judge her. Every woman has an issues with some part of her body.

Lack of experience when it comes to the bedroom. She's inexperience because she may have never had sex before or only had one sexual partner.

Her heart was broken before, so she afraid to open up to someone new. After experiencing hurt in earliest relationship, she fears the pain and are reluctant to take another chance on being loved.

She had a traumatic experience. May have had a history of sexual abuse, domestic violence  and the memory of the physical trauma is often enough to make any thought of intimacy scary. She may need to heal herself before she can be comfortable with anyone in an intimate setting.


Dealing with fear of intimacy requires gaining more self understanding.