Strong
A high score means the everyday channel between you is open: you are understood without translating yourself, their bad week lands on you almost as heavily as your own, and silence beside them needs no filling. This is the component that survives distance and busy calendars — it is built from disclosure that was met, not from hours logged together. It has one blind spot: closeness is easily mistaken for agreement. Someone who knows you this well is also the person whose disappointment costs the most, and in bonds like this the hardest sentence often stays unsaid for years.
Moderate
A middle score describes a bond that is genuinely close in places and unmapped in others. Usually some channels are open — you pass on the news, you are honestly lifted by their good luck — while the expensive ones are not: the thing that would cost you if it got out goes somewhere else, and silences still want filling. This is the most common reading and the least fixed. Intimacy responds to ordinary events more than the other two components: it rises when disclosure is met well and drops when it is not, and neither shift takes years.
Faint
A low score says the private channel is mostly closed right now — not that the bond is worth little. Plenty of real relationships sit here: new ones that have not been tested, ones where warmth travels through action rather than talk, and ones where something happened and the disclosure stopped. What the score does say is that this bond is currently carried by something other than being known — attraction, shared history, or a decision to stay. That is worth naming out loud, because intimacy is the component people assume is present and almost never check.