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How to Understand and Build Intimacy in Every Relationship

By Maisha Johnson — 2019

Intimacy is closeness between people in personal relationships. It’s what builds over time as you connect with someone, grow to care about each other, and feel more and more comfortable during your time together.

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Sex and the Single Parent

How (and why) they find the time to parent and find a partner.

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After Giving Birth to My First Child, I Wondered: Would I Ever Want Sex Again?

I dreaded my husband’s attempts to initiate sex after pregnancy, but giving in out of a sense of duty or embracing a sexless relationship both felt like self-betrayal.

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Meaghan O'Connell
2018
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Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex?

The very qualities that lead to greater emotional satisfaction in peer marriages, as one sociologist calls them, may be having an unexpectedly negative impact on these couples’ sex lives.

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Famed Author Gary Chapman Talks Love, Marriage, Sex

Relationships that are successful tend to take the attitude: "How can I help you?" "How can I enrich your life?" "How can I be a better husband to you," if it's a marriage. "How can I be a better wife to you?" And what we want to do is to enhance each other's lives.

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Luiza Oleszczuk
2012
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Casual Sex May Be Improving America’s Marriages

One-night stands and friends with benefits are just what your brain ordered.

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Helen Fisher
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The Real Problem with Sexual Withholding in a Marriage

The problem with sexual withholding in a marriage has far less to do with actually having or not having sex and much more to do with misunderstanding.

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Suzanne Phillips
2015
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The Play of Sexual Polarity and Its Effects on Relationship Choices

Have you ever noticed either in your own or in your friends’ relationships, you can tell when there is a spark of sexual attraction or when there is more of a ‘friend energy’ than that of lovers? This ‘friend energy’ primarily occurs when two people have a lot in common but do not have a...

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Awaken
2013
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7 Ways to Emotionally Connect with Your Partner

If we want more depth and intimacy and joy in our relationships, we're going to have to develop more emotional connection with our partners, our friends, our family, our co-workers. It's that simple and that challenging.

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Robert Augstus Masters
2020
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5 Intuitions About Love and Sex You Shouldn’t Ignore

When we're looking for love, we often miss seeing extraordinary signs and messages that pop up in our daily life.

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Judith Orloff, MD
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