Layers.

You’ve heard of the social penetration theory developed by psychologists Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor in 1973? Simply stated, it says that we reveal ourselves in stages, as self-disclosure moves from shallow to more intimate. Peeling back layers of an onion and so on.

I’m no psychologist, but I wonder if those layers might be more fluid than the analogy suggests. If there’s some movement, a pas de deux of sorts, as layers float over each other.

Advance, retreat. Sometimes touching, sometimes not. Sometimes revealing, sometimes not.

I see that effect at work here.

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