Sexual scripts reflect social norms practices, and workings of power, and they provide frameworks and guidelines for sexual feelings and behaviors. There is often embarrassment, shame, and confusion associated with these sexual scripts, and they easily become fraught with potential misunderstandings. For many women, sexuality is shrouded in shame and fear and rather than seeing themselves as subjects in their own erotic lives, women may understand themselves as objects, seen through the eyes of others. Sexual self-schemas can be defined as identities or congnitive generalizations about sexual aspects of the self that are established from past and present experiences and that guide sexual feelings and behavior. We know that heterosexual relationships are a source of support and strength for many women. When heterosexual intimacies are grounded in unequal power relationships, it becomes more and more difficult for women and men to love in healthy ways. In heterosexual relationships sexual scripts tend to encourage men to be sexual initiators and sexually more dominant. Although this is not always the case, women who do initiate sex often run the risk of being labeled. The sexual practices can include: kissing, hugging, petting, snuggling, caressing. Emotional intimacy can be defined as sharing aspects of the self with others with the goal of mutual understanding.  I feel then in relationships today, we should not depend on the male partner to be something equally shared within the relationship.