Sentences with phrase «maintained feelings of satisfaction»

In fact, communal people maintained feelings of satisfaction even in these desire discrepant situations.

Not exact matches

In some cases, coercion is the only responsible alternative in order to maintain the ideal of maximum intensity and harmony of feeling and satisfaction.

And that sort of leaves me feeling conflicted about the loot system: is maintaining a good balance like this worth sacrificing the deep satisfaction to be had from a great loot system that rewards you in a well - paced manner with better gear?

Researchers in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology conducted a study to «understand how dating couples can maintain feelings of relationship satisfaction in their daily lives and over the course of time.»

According to self - expansion theory, one way to maintain a more satisfying relationship is to engage in novel, exciting activities with your long - term partner.4 Couples who engage in activities that both partners consider exciting (and therefore self - expanding), experience increases in relationship satisfaction.5 Changes in intimacy in a relationship (like those provided by self - expansion) can subsequently increase passion.6 In fact, in a recent study, researchers found that on days when couples experienced an increase in intimacy from the previous day, they report higher levels of passion and were more likely to have sex.7 In terms of a vacation, if a couple takes a trip that they both consider to be exciting (perhaps to a novel place), this may increase feelings of intimacy, and as a result, heighten passion.

But, in contrast, when one partner felt he or she was highly sexually skilled, both partners had higher sexual satisfaction at beginning of the study and maintained satisfaction over time.2