By: Diana García

The affirmation process starts when we discover virtues in ourselves, privacy with ourselves is essential in order to have privacy with the others.

Such privacy with ourselves grows as we become conscious of our deepest feelings, needs, fears, disappointments and dreams. If we are not aware of them, we do not have a self to give to the others. But this awareness requires time and structures.

Erickson says: “We can be in love or involved in privacies, but the privacy now at risk is the capability to commit to concrete affiliations, which may demand important sacrifices and concessions”.

So, privacy is not synonym of sexual expression or romantic sharing, it refers to the personal exposure and mutuality that are shared in a wide range of relationships (friendship, family, coworkers, community life, etc.)

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