A romantic relationship’s total amount of affectionate communication is a much stronger predictor of relationship satisfaction, trust and intimacy than whether each partner communicates...
Travel temporarily removes people from everyday routines, family oversight and social judgement. Dating apps make it easy to meet others in unfamiliar places, often...
Men in particular integrate their partners’ perspectives into how they evaluate their own professional success. For wives and girlfriends, this trend was significantly less...
Partners are often key facilitators of recovery, for example, by cooking heart-healthy meals, encouraging regular physical activity, and ensuring medications are taken correctly.
Domestic abusers use a mix of intense affection and emotional cruelty, combined with tales of their own childhood trauma, to generate a deep psychological...
Those with “dark triad” personality traits: psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism (i.e. cunning, manipulative) are more likely to use touch to manipulate their partner in...