Struggling for intimacy is part of a life-long process, says author Janet Woititz in this best-selling guide to successful relationships. For those who have grown up with alcoholism or dysfunction in the home, it is especially difficult. To be intimate, to be close, to be vulnerable, contradicts all the survival skills learned by Children of Alcoholics. Acquiring intimacy skills requires a complete re-learning process and is a difficult task, but not an insurmountable one. In this book Woititz lays out the struggle, the ultimate goal, and the means for achieving it.