7 Ways To Build Emotional Intimacy With Your Partner

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JAKARTA - Emotional intimacy or emotional intimacy is important in the household. If you and your partner are emotionally apart, then the interaction will be limited. Limited is not a matter of intensity but the quality of sharing thoughts and feelings.

Reporting from Bustle, Friday, March 12, Dr. Wyatt Fisher, who works as a licensed psychologist in Colorado, said emotional intimacy includes feeling safe, knowing each other, knowing how to think and accept.

Based on Fisher's recommendation, how to build emotional closeness with your partner as follows.

Share thoughts and feelings with each other

Head full of agendas? Then you need to share with your partner what plans will be done.

Meanwhile, sharing one's heart with a partner means knowing each other's feelings and the background of the birth of these feelings. For example, the next time you feel sad, share your feelings and tell them about the cause.

Share secrets

If emotional intimacy has been formed, then sharing a secret is not a scary thing. Because your partner is the only person who should know everything about you, including secrets that you never share with anyone.

Build mutual trust

Can you or your partner rely on each other? J. Hope Suis explained, when a pair of humans has a love relationship, trust will make the relationship stronger.

Accept the advantages and disadvantages

Shortcomings are often the reason for leaving, although not the only reason. But accepting your partner's strengths and weaknesses is a way to build emotional intimacy. By accepting each other, it can build a sense of security.

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Tells important events in life

Although past events are each other's business, couples need to know. If you feel good about good news, your partner is sure to feel good too. If the news is the opposite, then sharing feelings and strengthening each other can build emotional intimacy.

Evaluate each other's relationships

The Coalition Hook, MPH. said that a partner who already has emotional intimacy will not harbor doubts on his own with his partner. It ends up triggering negative emotions such as anger, disappointment, and silent rejection that makes relationships fragile.

Happy couple relationships do not hesitate to evaluate and improve each other so that the bond develops in a more positive direction.

Get things done without saying much

Being busy has very limited opportunities to communicate with your partner. According to Scalisi, couples who have emotional intimacy despite short communication, full openness and honesty, are able to maintain the warmth of the household relationship.