The present paper focuses on awho-why-where-when-how-what-whom structural model of interpersonal “distancing.” The term “distancing” denotes either approach or avoidance movement along an “intimacy-immediacy” dimension. This dimension itself is defined as an integration across proxemic, kinesic, paralinguistic, and linguistic interpersonal modalities. Parallels are drawn between the concepts of “intimacy” disequilibrium and cognitive dissonance; the latter deals with attitude-behavior discrepancies and the former with attraction-approach discrepancies. A compensatory model is expanded acrosswho's partners as well as across his sensory modalities, and the concept of “intimacy overload” is offered as a clarifying tool for the “social refractoriness” and “information overload” explanations appearing in various aspects of the literature.