According to the passage, why do many people choose not to have intimate relationships?
(A) Loneliness brings joy.
(B) Mental health is very important.
(C) Intimate relationships sometimes hurt.
(D) Modern society reinforces independence.

intimate翻譯：個人的, 親密的；有性關係的；宜於密切關係的, 精通的, 諳熟的

reinforce翻譯：加固；使更結實, 強化，加深，進一步證實（觀點、看法等）, 增援

I feel that if there is, in this world, one person whom we can touch totally and unabashedly不害臊, we will never die of loneliness.

One person! I don’t say fifty, a hundred, a thousand. It does not matter who that person is, woman to woman, man to man, someone you can go to and who will listen.

The problem is: although most of us can select the joy of intimacy親密, many people choose not to.

Some believe that intimate relationships are risky. They believe that intimacy will hurt, and that it is going to make the greatest demands on you, bring out your deepest深切的 feelings, and make you feel miserable難受 sometimes.

Moreover, it seems that our modern society does not reinforce intimacy. One out of every four marriages ends in divorce.

As George Leonard says, “we can orbit軌道 the earth, we can touch the moon, but this society has not devised發明 a way for two people to live together in harmony和諧 for seven straight days without wanting to strangle扼死  each other.”

It is said that intimacy is out of date過時, but I would like to assert斷言 that intimacy is absolutely essential or we are all going to go mad.

Go ahead and live in isolation, if you can. I believe that you can judge your level of mental health to the degree that you can form meaningful and lasting relationships.