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Closeness

13 Ways to Keep Love Alive

Linda Bloom LCSW and Charlie Bloom MSW | Posted 09.08.2015 | Healthy Living
Read More: Couple, Relationship, Love, Time, Date, Priorities, Activities, Sexual, Attraction, Neglect, Closeness, Playfulness, Healthy Living News
Linda Bloom LCSW and Charlie Bloom MSW

While it is impossible to prevent stale moments from occurring, it is possible to strengthen the substance of a relationship in a way that minimizes their impact and diminishes their frequency to a significant degree.

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Passages

Tricia McCallum | Posted 04.05.2015 | Books
Read More: Death, Death of a Parent, Death of Mother, Father's Death, Death of Father, Saying Goodbye, Selling Family Home, Family, Family Values, Family Travel, Family Love, Parental Loss, Growing Up, Growing Older, Sisters, Brothers and Sisters, Emigration, Immigration, Immigrants, New Homes, New House, Sadness, Dealing With Grief, Dealing With Death, Dealing With Loss, Change, Generations, Family Stories, Farewell, Loss, Moving, Moving On, Families, Togetherness, Closeness, Mothers and Daughters, Fathers and Daughters, Goodbye, Love, Parent Dying, Relationships, Books News
Tricia McCallum

This story is included in Tricia McCallum's first book of poetry: Nothing Gold Can Stay: A Mother and Father Remembered .

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36 Questions for Intimacy, Back Story

Elaine Aron, Ph.D. | Posted 03.18.2015 | Healthy Living
Read More: Closeness, Highly Sensitive Person, Friends, Prejudiced, Couples, Ethnic Group, Married Couples, Healthy Living News
Elaine Aron, Ph.D.

We had not created the 36 questions to help you fall in love. To do a good job of that we would have needed to do a study with people who, above all, came into it really wanting to fall in love, and we were not in that business! More important, we would need to follow up over time to know if the relationships lasted, an expensive process, and funding research on love is not easy.

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Creating Fond Memories With Our Children

Dr. Hyder Zahed | Posted 11.15.2014 | Good News
Read More: Unconditional Love, Playfulness, Memories With Our Children, Quality Time and Holding Back Judgments., Closeness, Good News News
Dr. Hyder Zahed

One of my friends who had also raised his daughter alone said that, "raising a daughter is the most masculine thing a man can do." From my own experience, I understood what this means.

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Can You Be Too Close To Your Significant Other?

Christina Huffington | Posted 03.27.2013 | Women
Read More: Love Study, Connection, Romantic Relationships, Relationship Study, Love & Sex, Intimacy Study, Love and Relationships, Closeness, Intimacy, Women News

A close romantic relationship is generally believed to be better than a distant one. According to a new study, "Closeness Discrepancies in Romantic Re...

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Language Changes Distance and Mood

Art Markman, Ph.D. | Posted 04.08.2013 | Science
Read More: Language, Past, Mood, William Hart, Closeness, Happiness, Psychological Science, Memory and Emotions, Science News
Art Markman, Ph.D.

We all know that thinking about happy memories can make you happy, while thinking about sad events from the past can make you sad. An interesting paper in Psychological Science by William Hart examined this question of mental closeness using language.

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Can a mother be a daughter's best friend?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Relationships, Living, Breaking Living News, Friend, The Friendship Doctor, Women, Book, Daughter, Guest Post, Closeness, Giveaway, Too Close for Comfort, Susan Morris Shaffer, Wall Street Journal, Intimacy, Mother’S Day, Friendship, Linda Perlman Gordon, Contest, Mother, Parental Paradigm Shift, Parents, Female, Best Friend, Mother as Friend, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal by Amy Chozick, How Parents Became Cool, describes the parental paradigm shift (as seen on TV) from loving...

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