Women need emotional connection to access physical affection—it’s not just a cliché, it’s neuroscience. If your conversations are surface-level or transactional, her sense of closeness erodes.

Have you ever expressed affection you have not genuinely felt in the moment? Naturally, the answer for many people to that question is yes. This question became the focus of my early research ...

Some TikTok users are spreading the word about “love bombing”—a display of excessive affection at the beginning of a relationship that may reveal their partner’s narcissism—though others ...