How do you experience "true" intimacy in your life?

Over the last few years I have supposedly been in a process which is supposed to make me understand what true intimacy is. But I still don’t feel like I have a clue. I love my kids. I love my wife. I love my friends, but does anyone know the whole me? The true inner me? Do I give anyone a chance to know me?

I’m sure some of you must be chuckling at that since it seems like I splatter all my shit across fluther, but there’s a lot more. Even in my anonymity, I can’t let myself be seen.

What is true intimacy? How do you experience it? What gets in the way of it? Is anyone else afraid to be truly known?