March 10, 2008
5 Simple Steps for Increasing Emotional Intimacy
Naturally, intimacy is the spark that helps to keep a marriage alive. Having emotional intimacy makes us feel loved and accepted. However, emotional intimacy can quickly fall to the wayside when careers and/or family get in the way and take over.
Then there may be no intimacy at all.
That intimate feeling that used to spark romance seems to be harder to find once you’ve been together for awhile. The demands of life can get the way and you and your partner can be left wondering how to increase the emotional intimacy in your relationship.
It doesn’t really need to be said that emotional intimacy is an important part of a relationship. Emotional intimacy is that connection between you and your significant other that makes you desire each other and makes you excited to be with each other.
When emotional intimacy starts to fade, it could spell trouble for even the best of relationships.
However, there are five simple things you can do to help increase emotional intimacy in your relationship:
Eye contact is still important. Direct eye contact has been shown to be a very emotional action. It stirs emotions within a person that are very intense. Gazing into your lovers’ eyes can really give your emotional intimacy a kick – and possibly cause goose bumps and that all over feeling of excitement!
Remember to Kiss. Many times as a relationship ages, kissing is lost. A kiss is one of THE MOST emotially intimate actions between a couple. A kiss can signify so much more than any other thing you can do.
Connect on a deeper level. One way to do this is to lie together, each feeling the others heart beat and synchronizing your breathing. This can bring you together on such a deep, intimate level that it is exhilarating.
Just spend a little time enjoying each others company. You do not have to be doing anything else but being together. You don’t even have to talk! Just the simple act of spending time together is enough.
Do small things that say “I love you.” It is usually the smallest gestures that say the most. Doing small, simple things every now and then shows you care so much that you won’t even have to say those three little words; your partner will just know (and it will be GREATLY appreciated).
These are five great ways to increase the emotional intimacy in your relationship. Even though they may not be considered as sexual intimacy, they are very intimate.
You are simply trying to focus on increasing the emotional intimacy between you, and building it up to where it once was.
As you build the intimacy in your relationship you will soon start to see its impact. You may get giddy like you were when you first got together. You may start to feel like you are going through puppy love all over again.
Best of all you are going to be creating and strengthening that bond between you that will help to keep you happily together. That is why improving emotional intimacy can do wonders for your relationship.
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