There’s a scene in director Siân Heder’s “CODA,” a story about a teenage daughter with aspirations to sing and whose parents and older brother are deaf, that’s so agonizingly touching it makes you ...

An emotional connection is what ties every personal connection together. It’s what makes or breaks a true relationship in any form, whether it be friends, partners, siblings, etc. However, college can ...

SAN ANTONIO, May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Noise from next door is the No. 1 gripe of Americans living in condominiums, townhomes and apartments, and it's not just that cranked-up sound system they're hearing ...

All too often in the clinic, we see individuals and couples who struggle to express their emotional world. In its very gendered form, we’ll see the following dynamic — men labeled as indifferent, ...

“Intimacy anorexia” is a term coined by psychologist Dr. Doug Weiss to explain why some people “actively withhold emotional, spiritual, and sexual intimacy” from a partner. Issues related to emotional ...

When many people think of intimacy, they equate it to sex, and though sex can be an intimate activity, the two are not the same thing. Intimacy goes far beyond physical touch, and it's an important ...

Intimacy—that feeling of closeness, connectedness, and togetherness shared between people—is one of the most important and rewarding components of a healthy romantic relationship. When I work with ...

What Is Fear of Intimacy? Intimacy is complex. It's emotional, the sharing of feelings with each other. It's intellectual, the sharing of ideas and thoughts. It's physical, with not just sexual but ...

What comes to mind when you hear the word intimacy? Is it sex? For most people it is. "Being intimate" has somehow become a polite way of talking about sex, and yet sex and intimacy are not synonyms.

“Sounds of intimacy” have reportedly been heard at a new quiet space designed for tennis fans to find “a moment of private meditation, prayer or reflection” at Wimbledon. The Guardian said spectators ...