Navigating relationships can be tricky, especially when it comes to expressing personal needs like affection. It’s easy to assume that your partner should naturally know how you feel, but that’s not ...

If you really like holding hands and saying "I love you" but your partner doesn't, your relationship is still probably better off than if both of you had a modest interest in expressing affection.

Each person is different, which means their ways of giving and showing love will vary. If you're not very expressive and find it hard to tell that special someone how important they are to you, ...

Most affairs don’t start in hotel rooms or dating apps — they begin when someone feels unseen in their own relationship. Research from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy reveals ...

In a 2014 study, Dr. Kory Floyd posed an important question: what happens when we don’t get enough affection? Drawing on work by Schutz, which positioned affection as one of our basic needs, he wanted ...

A new study by researchers at McGill University demonstrates for the first time that the CD38 gene "is associated with communal behavior, partner perceptions, affect, and relationship adjustment in ...