Sentences with phrase «greater feelings of closeness»

And when both partners do this, there is a powerful synergistic effect which results in even greater feelings of closeness, passion and love.

The Wall Street Journal reports, «Both givers and receivers report greater feelings of closeness to their gift partner when the gift reflects the giver.»

Not exact matches

I don't think that's what Catholic dogma teaches — it is merely for the type of suffering you are describing, that during suffering, the strength one can draw upon is from a closeness with God (or a feeling of something greater that can help one).

Exercising with someone increases a feeling of connection and closeness which is why it's a great date choice.

When you are in the early stages of a loving relationship, the temptation to spend all your time together is great, but to feel a closeness to someone does not mean being inseparable.

Regardless of whether that discrepancy was negative (i.e., feeling too little closeness) or even positive (i.e., feeling too much closeness), participants who reported greater discrepancies felt less satisfied, less committed, and thought about breakup more often.

Using a daily diary approach, researchers examined whether day - to - day increases in intimacy were tied to (1) increased feelings of passion, (2) a greater likelihood of sex, and (3) greater sexual satisfaction.2 Every day for three weeks, couples completed a brief questionnaire assessing their day - to - day disclosures, feelings of closeness, and displays of affection — all components of intimacy — as well as their feelings of passion and aspects of their sex lives.

As partners explore their inner worlds and share with each other, deep fears and needs are articulated and shared, bonding couples with feelings of greater closeness and care for each other.

In group psychotherapy healthy assertiveness and self - expression of feelings and life issues is learned leading to greater closeness and connection with others within and outside the group.

Taken together, this theoretical and empirical work suggests that within - family patterns of perceptions of differential treatment may shape to which siblings adult children feel the greatest closeness.

Based on theories of homophily, we hypothesized that adult children would feel the greatest closeness toward siblings whom they perceived as sharing their experience of being either favored or disfavored by their mothers.

Thus, we hypothesize that individuals will feel the greatest closeness toward siblings whom they perceive as sharing their experience of being favored by their mothers.