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It’s Time to Rethink What Loneliness Is

By Miriam Kirmayer — 2021

Research suggests that chronic loneliness may be as damaging to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. But do we know what loneliness actually is?

Read on www.theguardian.com

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Why Do So Many People Respond Negatively to Being Loved?

Love is not only difficult to find, but is even more challenging for many people to accept and tolerate.

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Robert Firestone
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Intimacy: The Art of Relationships

How relationships are sabotaged by hidden expectations.

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Lori H. Gordon
2016
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How to Understand and Build Intimacy in Every Relationship

Intimacy is closeness between people in personal relationships. It’s what builds over time as you connect with someone, grow to care about each other, and feel more and more comfortable during your time together.

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Maisha Johnson
2019
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The What and How of True Intimacy

Intimacy. People often confuse it with sex. But people can be sexual without being intimate. One night stands, friends with benefits, or sex without love are examples of purely physical acts with no intimacy involved.

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Marie Hartwell-Walker
2017
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It’s Not Only Women Who Want More Intimacy in Relationships

Contrary to prevailing gender tropes, many men crave deeper emotional connection, work hard for it and don’t always receive it in return.

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Andrew Reiner
2020
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Afraid of Getting Close? Why People Fear Intimacy

Why is it so hard to get close to people? When it comes to relationships and friendships, so many of us struggle to build intimate connections. It’s not always easy to figure out what, exactly, is holding you back.

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Wendy Gaylen
2020
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How Self-Centered Pride Destroys Intimacy

The most effective antidote is humility

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Randi Gunther
2020
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36 Questions for Intimacy, Back Story

The basis of the 36 questions is that back-and-forth self-disclosure . . . is consistently linked with coming to like the other person you do this with.

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Elaine Aron
2015
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Relationship Epidemic: Shutting Out Body Wisdom

Most of us struggle at one time or another with an inability to feel what’s going on inside us at the level of emotion and energy flow. The technical term for this problem is “alexithymia.”

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Kathlyn Hendricks, Gay Hendricks
2010
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Tips for Building a Healthy Relationship

Want to feel loved and connected to your partner? These tips can help you build and keep a romantic relationship that’s healthy, happy, and satisfying.

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Lawrence Robinson, Melinda Smith and Jeanne Segal
2019
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