Love is the purest feeling in the whole wide Universe and it is truer than existence itself. To what I have come to understand of love (in any form that is), there is no life and sustenance without it ...

When a dear friend told me a few weeks ago that she and her spouse had been deeply intimate the night before, I naturally assumed that she was referring to good sex, which also helped explain her ...

Most couples worry that fighting means something is wrong. Why conflict and repair are the true markers of intimacy.

While emotional validation is an essential ingredient of love, it’s not sufficient on its own. Being seen provides relief while being loved provides consistency, accountability and mutual investment.

When The Terminator and RoboCop hit theaters in the 1980s, Hollywood imagined artificial intelligence (AI) as an existential threat—machines that would dominate, surveil, and destroy us. Four decades ...

Lifestyle factors influence both fertility and libido. Smoking, excessive alcohol use, unmanaged chronic disease, obesity, sleep deprivation and chronic stress can all affect reproductive health in ...

Four examples—literary, biographical, autobiographical and contemporary—illustrate the significance of intimacy as a cultural ideal and why, despite our deep longing for it, intimacy remains elusive ...

Considering there's a lot of emotional labor and ties to physical intimacy, like a 2018 study explains, it's not surprising that many women feel those desires falter with age — when they've become ...

Marriages have their ups and downs. This is a normal part of being married to someone for several years. One major downside a married couple may experience is a lack of intimacy, whether emotional or ...