Two Cancer partners may share a deep sensitivity, respect for silence and a feeling of understanding each other even before speaking. That closeness can feel like magic, although it does not replace the need to ask and to listen.
The main challenge is to voice discomfort in time. If both stay quiet, waiting for their partner to notice what is happening, the relationship may fill up with resentments that only surface once they have grown very strong. Each may then come to conclusions about the other without having talked them over.
The same sensitivity that fosters devotion and support can become painful when everything stays unspoken.
Intimacy, home and family offer meeting places. Each can understand how important those bonds are to their partner, as long as there is also a place to build the relationship itself.