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We long for a Loving Touch

Colonel Prashant Rawal

We all need affection occasionally. We long for a loving touch now and then. Affection is more than just an emotion; it is an essential ingredient in healthy relationships. Some of us welcome and need affection when we’re feeling down and out or going through tough times. We might require it while seeking reconciliation after a failed or temporally jeopardized close relationship. Affection may be sought from a patient listener as well. Thus the need for affection is quite natural on most occasions.

The minute difference between affection and emotion needs to be clearly understood. Affection is something that you tend to “offer” someone hence is the act of affecting while emotion is a person’s internal state of being that is something attributed within.

Affection in a relationship is vital to its longevity. Therefore, a healthy relationship might get ruined due to lack of affection. Showing affection at physical, mental, and spiritual levels is critical for the sustenance of an intimate relationship. It is therefore important for you to know the ways to show affection to your partner.

There are times affection is simply a way of connecting, and other times when it can be deeply healing. Affection showed appropriately goes beyond being simply connecting to actually therapeutic. Affection expressed timely can mend broken relationships healing old scars. Therefore it is important to discover the occasions when affection is most meaningful to your partner.

In times of expressed affection, we tend to feel extremely close and connected with our partners. Possibly it’s only a few words or an act of kindness we are offered. It is the degree of actual or perceived involvement at all possible levels. Be willing and share with each other the ways in which you feel especially close and what your partner does to foster that. You might both surprise each other.

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