Sentences with phrase «intimate emotional conflicts»

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Experienced through headphones and GPS activated, it generates an intimate and emotional landscape, which connects Preston City Centre with the battle fields of the Somme, and emphasises the significance of home within conflict situations.

When each partner in the relationship is able to moderate their tone of communication, regulate and calm their strong emotional response, and are able to reach out and express to the other what they are experiencing in the moment of their conflict, it brings them closer and makes their relationship more intimate.

Men and women rated kissing on the lips as being more intimate than cuddling, hand holding, hugging, and massaging.2 In a study of adolescents and young adults, those who engaged in more frequent kissing had higher levels of relationship satisfaction.3 One reason for this satisfaction boost was because conflict with a romantic partner was easier to resolve when there was more affection, like kissing on the lips, in the relationship.2 Kissing promotes emotional closeness, and partners report that kissing after sex strengthens their bond and that they desire to kiss each other after orgasm.1 This makes sense because kissing may increase levels of oxytocin (aka the «love» hormone), a chemical that promotes bonding.4

Marital therapist Brent Atkinson in his excellent Emotional Intelligence in Couples Therapy speaks about as well as any of the intensity with which we are swept up in the reactive and painful fear that infects both people in the throes of intimate conflict.

It is now well documented that parental conflict can have lasting effects on children's emotional wellbeing, predisposition to mental health problems and the capacity to form successful, long - term, intimate relationships into the future.