an emotionally connected couple is able to share their feelings and thoughts freely with another—he seeks your confidence, and you his. if you and your spouse are working towards bridging the emotional connection, or looking to further strengthen your emotional bond, you may find the following tips useful. before you can develop emotional intimacy with your spouse, identify the what hinders. it takes courage to be open and vulnerable with the person you love — that is emotional intimacy. vulnerability …

“before, i thought that pain could only come from a physical betrayal – there wasn’t a rulebook to follow for this type.” an emotional affair is characterised by nonsexual intimacy with someone other than your partner, in such a way that violates their trust and expectations. then she looked at her husband’s phone: “his messages to her had their own kind of language and intimacy – i knew then that we wouldn’t work.” not every relationship would be threatened by …

before you can understand intimacy issues and how to overcome intimacy issues in your marriage, you need to know what intimacy in marriage is. however, intimacy in a marriage or a relationship is actually a culmination of both the emotional and physical feelings, which you can openly express to your partner without feeling vulnerable. some of the effects of a lack of intimacy in marriage or lack of intimacy in a relationship are as follows: being in a relationship without …

however, when couples are missing the closeness that they once had and not feeling loved, a lack of time together is a major part of the problem. the most common excuse i hear is that “we are so busy” with work/school/kids/aging parents/etc., that we don’t have the time or energy to carve out any time for ourselves as a couple. parents that are spending an inadequate amount of time and attention on their marriage are modeling this to the kids. …

unfortunately, when this happens it takes a toll on how close couples feel to one another and ultimately affects the sexual intimacy. the first thing you can do to restore intimacy in your relationship is to increase the amount of time that you spend together. one of the reasons you may struggle with sexual intimacy is because you haven’t taken the time to have a date night with your significant other in quite a long time.

physical affection sets the …