Intimate, enduring relationships play a vital role in our development and general well-being throughout our lives. If we find that our ability to connect and experience intimacy is blocked, this can create an obstacle on our path to well-being and fulfilment, as even the most independent minded of us need some level of intimate human contact. Our ability to experience intimacy has been connected to having strengths in three areas. These three areas make up 'the three Cs'.