Feeling Closer to You

Building Intimacy with a Stranger

36 Questions to Deepen Relationships (Part I)

Sieran Lane
11 min readMar 1, 2022

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Click here for Part II and Part III

You feel so alive when you share personal stories with someone. It makes you feel connected. Even loved and cared for.

And the more you share and confide, the closer you feel to them.

A research study suggests that when you get to know someone on a more intimate level, by learning more about their lives, you may grow closer to them.

In the study, strangers asked each other a list of 36 questions, beginning with surface topics to increasingly deep ones.

Mary Ann Miranda explores this idea in greater detail, in the context of her own life.

She answers the first 12 questions in her post, “I Think I Love You Part I.” The rest of the questions and her answers are in part II and part III.

Just for fun, I wanted to respond to these questions too, but writing them in the comments…

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Sieran Lane

A queer trans writer and therapist. I help fiction writers complete their novels. Let's connect! https://sieranlane.ghost.io