Some aspects of distance between people (friends, husband/wife, parent/child) are not wrong. For example, in Proverbs 14:10, the writer speaks of bitterness, pain, sorrow and loss. There is a fundamental distance between people because of these difficult emotions and experiences. The living God reserves for Himself certain intimacies as a person goes through hardship and suffering.
--David Powlison
The heart knows its own bitterness,
and no stranger shares its joy. --Proverbs 14:10
