His list for women
includes physical affection, conversation, family commitment, honesty and openness, and financial support.
Not exact matches
Meaningful positive interaction in the form of eye contact, smiling, and
physical affection can result in the child bonding with a variety of people,
including fathers, grandparents, siblings, or even neighbours.
The court is guided by the best interests of the child, and considers: the relationship of the child with each parent and the ability and disposition of each parent to provide the child with love,
affection and guidance, the ability and disposition of each parent to assure that the child receives adequate food, clothing, medical care, other material needs and a safe environment, the ability and disposition of each parent to meet the child's present and future developmental needs, the quality of the child's adjustment to the child's present housing, school and community and the potential effect of any change, the ability and disposition of each parent to foster a positive relationship and frequent and continuing contact with the other parent,
including physical contact, except where contact will result in harm to the child or to a parent, the quality of the child's relationship with the primary care provider, if appropriate given the child's age and development, the relationship of the child with any other person who may significantly affect the child, the ability and disposition of the parents to communicate, cooperate with each other and make joint decisions concerning the children where parental rights and responsibilities are to be shared or divided, and any evidence of abuse.
Principal components analysis of the 10 items revealed 3 factors that explained 52 % of the total variance: 1 factor
included the 2 items on
physical affection, a second factor
included the 6 items on mother - child activities, and a third factor
included the 2 items on eating and bedtime.
Celebrating good things and feeling pleasure — Examples of these skills
include handling approval and compliments, feeling pleasure from doing kind and loving acts, and enjoying
physical affection.
Unwanted pursuit behaviors — which
include relatively innocuous behaviors, such as gift - giving or exaggerated displays of
affection, as well as more serious types of intrusions, such as stalking or threats of
physical violence — occur relatively frequently following relationship breakups.1 Recently, researchers at Ghent University examined the circumstances under which unwanted pursuit behaviors are especially likely to occur.2 Using a sample of 396 divorced individuals, they investigated whether certain breakup characteristics (most notably, who initiated the separation) predict the frequency of post-divorce unwanted pursuit behaviors.
So it would appear that
physical affection between partners,
including holding hands, can help people to respond better to stress.
Love languages can
include acts of services, words of affirmation,
affection /
physical touch, gifts, quality time, or active listening.
The parenting measure used is the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment scale, which
includes both interviewer observation and mother self - report on parenting behavior like frequency of reading to the child and showing
physical affection.
Your spouse's love languages could
include things such as
physical affection, words of affirmation, unsolicited acts of service, receiving meaningful gifts, and quality time.
The word intimacy
includes not only
physical affection and a strong emotional bond, but also a supreme level of trust where we can share our thoughts and feelings with one another as we navigate life's many paths together.
Physical intimacy
includes hand holding, hugs, and a whole range of other expressions of
affection.