> Does intimacy somehow lend knowledge of whether someone's looking for a long term relationship? In trying to understand your question, I'm realizing it's pos

> Does intimacy somehow lend knowledge of whether someone's looking for a long term relationship? In trying to understand your question, I'm realizing it's possible you are taking "intimacy" to mean "sexual intimacy." I don't think the author meant to speak euphemistically in that way. I think it just means deep, vulnerable relational knowledge of the other. In which case, yes. When you get to know someone intimately, you acquire license to ask these kinds of more probing questions and you are justified in expecting honest answers to such questions. You also become more skilled at detecting facades and subterfuge from the other person.