in addition to romantic partners, you can have intimate relationships with friends, family members, and other people in your life. while sex isn’t necessary to achieve intimacy, intimacy can often lead to a better sex life, which in itself has health benefits. the trust will allow both of you to grow and try new things that might enhance your relationship.

“when you feel supported, you can begin to overcome a certain amount of emotional pain and start the healing process,” …

there are many temptations to organize our life around the experience of earlier trauma. sex with intimacy is the engine that makes a relationship sing. intimacy is the experience of true closeness to another, true knowing and being known. as i’ve written elsewhere, when we find ourselves in the field of intimacy, we lose control in the classic way we like to have it. the person who you are intimate with can be a source of the greatest validation and …

intimacy in a relationship (an interpersonal relationship, to use a clinical term) is the breadth of things like love, physical contact, trust and closeness that is shared with another person. this means that when there is a problem with (or a lack of) intimacy), it may indicate a problem with the relationship. even so, being a parent is also one of the toughest jobs in the world. although kids are a natural consequence of the wonders of intimacy, they can, …

the courting period is a time when you feel close but you actually merge with your partner and forget your individuality for a while. it is normal and even inevitable that you will have some negative feelings towards your partner from time to time, and sometimes more than others. keeping it to yourself may be a habit you picked up as a child. no parent was there to help you out of emotional pain. neither partner has the emotional muscle …

but we know that the physical body can heal, and your emotional body can heal too. it’s not about comparing yourself to the affair partner, and it’s not about being someone for your mate that you’re not. after disclosure of an affair or sexual addiction, one of the most critical things for partners to experience is empathy. one of the most common obstacles to resuming physical intimacy is the mind, especially for the betrayed spouse. it is not a good …