What is more important to sustain us: sex, love, or intimacy?

We cannot make it very far or be very healthy and happy human beings without all three. But which is more important when it comes down to it? Sex, and one of our most basic physiological needs for release? Love, giving and receiving, love of family, friends, spouse? Or intimacy, the connection we share with those we are closest to? Are sex and love just two very different ways of expressing and seeking intimacy, one physical, one emotional?What is more important to sustain us: sex, love, or intimacy?Love, sex, and intimacy are all necessary for a healthy and productive marriage...A woman, who knows that she is loved in all areas of marriage, will take pleasure in having sex with the man she married...Intimacy like love takes action to complete its purpose... Having a loving, giving, and sharing relationship with the person you married provides couples the closeness that marriage craves... The bonds of intimacy are shared on each level in marriage from romance, to sex, to areas of communication.What is more important to sustain us: sex, love, or intimacy?
love would have to be the most important. It's the basis of a relationship and if it didn't exist the relationship wouldn't You can live without having sex as long as you feel as though your partner cares for you. But the love will ultimately lead to intimacy which will than lead to sex. The three feelings and expressions are different stages of a relationship, all leading to the other.What is more important to sustain us: sex, love, or intimacy?After 30 years of marriage I truly think we progress from Sex, grow from love of family and in our older years the love and although the intimacy has changed it's so much more cherished now, Our relationships grow and change just as we do except they truly get so much better with time. Men change as they get older and they become the men we always wanted. It pays off to have the courage to work through the hard times.
I think that love and sex are both just ways of expressing intimacy as you said in your question. I agree that we need all 3, but intimacy in my opinion is the most important. However, I think that intimacy is more than a connection; I think it is something we consciously crave, taking it and giving it at our own will.What is more important to sustain us: sex, love, or intimacy?Love will benefit everyone you come in contact with. It is clearly the most important. Intimacy is just a more personal form of love, but you share it with fewer people. Sex is just a means on reproduction and/or a physical form of pleasure that you share with fewer people still.What is more important to sustain us: sex, love, or intimacy?
Love, definitely. Sex and intimacy are but animal behaviour. We're evolved human beings, and the true essence of our being transcends that of a physical body. It is the emotions that control our behaviour.
Sex, love and intimacy will help you embrace the fullness of your sexual experiance and most of the women believe that they must lie to sustain their jobs and carfeers.

More important that the couple itself must set the boundaries.What is more important to sustain us: sex, love, or intimacy?
You're splitting hairs here. All three of these items work in coordination with the others. Human instinct combines these three for reproduction.
Intimacy.
intimacy
Love.



Love is different than sex.
SEX, all the others are just nonsense, useless and waste of time.
Body has to be sustained to do any of the above.
for me it's love! because if you have love, sex (with your spouse) will surely be there as well as intimacy!
i would say sex.

because it makes us fell good instantly and is easier to maintain than the other two.
All three are merely external expressions or aspects of the creational cause for the purpose of self-reflexive experience perceived as being external. The mind/brain filters sensory data, perceiving the outer world to be external based upon belief and faith that what is perceived is indeed external. However, the truth is, all things are sensed and recorded by the brain, imaged with the Mind (processed or filtered by belief and faith), and observed by what people widely define as the Ego, Soul, or Over-self (Super-conscious).



The concept of Self or Individualism, allowing a being to identify itself as being separate from other creates a relationship that is dynamic. Each individual is processing their "reality" in common, such that each are taught that a tree is a tree and so on. When two are exchanging information, the environment is assumed to be the same for both, both assuming the other perceives as they do. In fact, what is perceived by each is an unique "image" that is NOT the same, but is substantially similar based upon definition, allowing common belief and faith to be aligned. This, then, is largely accomplished in the background and is not consciously processed.



This leaves the conscious mind to focus on linear processes, linked to the left hemisphere of the brain while the interconnectedness to all things is left to be processed by the right hemisphere. The combination of these processes can be more or less evident with regard to personal choice and awareness shifting from purely external to incorporating internal realities.



Most people are not aware that Feeling and Emotion are polarities that have similar qualities. Experience is a recording and therefore a memory, consequently being a Past. By the time the mind registers an event in the moment of now, it is already a memory. It is memory that the mind/brain works with for the most part, using it to anticipate what is identified to be a likely future event. From this basis, choice is made to affect what is thought to be a coming reality that is anticipated to manifest. Emotion, is furthermore, a refined definition, based upon prior emotional experiences related to prior raw sensory data (experience). Emotion is relative and is not rigid. An event defined by one descriptive emotion, such as sadness, can be re-defined to be one of joy being associated with the same event. This process, although to a degree necessary for our physicality and function, is the same as "living in the past."



Feeling, however, is creative. Feeling is Causal. There are two main and distinct aspects of Feeling for which all derivatives come. Love and Fear. Our reality is a duality, although many only "see" and "live" in the past. Most do not realize, as a result, that they create what they experience.



The outer world is a reflection of a dynamic creation of all individuals (aspects) that are in truth interrelated in profound ways. The "reflection" for an individual is like a mirror that takes infinite shape and form, hiding with obscurity the source of it's manifestation. It's purpose is multifaceted, but in the main, gives the individual an opportunity to experience his/her creation. It's the not being aware of this that gives rise to the experience being perceived as "just happening" as a result of others. This is not necessarily true. It is the individual who is creating the effect to which others respond/create interactively.



Feeling, Thought, Word, Action are the four elements of creation. Want, Need, Desire, Expectation are reactions based upon the not knowing that you can literally create.



Love is: Giving of the self for the benefit of another (self) without need, want, desire or expectation from the other (self), but rather give for the sake of giving. The benefit of this arrangement is that you receive twice what you give, but not necessarily as you might think it to be. It follows a law known as the Law of Squares, or N to the second power.



1 person giving is 1. However, in our attempt to find balance, ex. male and female, a relationship built upon the above definition then is 2 squared, giving 4 times the energy of the two creating it. Therefore a large group, say of 10 people, giving in like manner, creates 100 times the energy. Amazing!



So, whether sex, love, or intimacy is defined to be more important is entirely based upon choice. We are dealing with energies. Feeling is an energy that propagates or moves in a wave. Thought is an energy that is shaped by belief and faith. Focus and Intent are the WILL for it to exist at any moment. The combination of Thought and Feeling, then creates a third existence of energy. However, it is an interference pattern that is created (holographic) which creates an energy referred to as "living light." The frequencies of this energy are too high to be measured, but harmonically crystallize into denser states of being. The result is physical matter which is our "mirror" that results from our creation.



Sex, Love, Intimacy are interrelated just as Joy, Truth and Love are. One leads to the other and it doesn't matter the order. However, by the act of denial, one can focus on a particular aspect, but not fully enjoy what is there to be experienced. Therefore, one who finds joy in sex alone is missing the True Joy that Love encompasses by choosing to not experience the various aspects associated with sex.



I wish you well.



Good Luck.