Intimacy is the key to a happy love life

Updated on: 20 January,2011 10:33 AM IST |
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Want to perk up your love life? Well, then try and take out time to share some intimate moments with your sweetheart, suggests a new study

Want to perk up your love life? Well, then try and take out time to share some intimate moments with your sweetheart, suggests a new study.

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The study has cited that the level of intimacy people perceived within a relationship in any given week significantly predicted perceptions of relational uncertainty and interference from a partner.

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Relational Uncertainty refers to people's lack of confidence in their perceptions of relationship involvement.
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In the study, the researchers took into account links between intimacy and relational uncertainty.
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Denise Haunani Solomon of Pennsylvania State University and Jennifer A. Theiss of Rutgers University conducted a web-based survey to 315 unmarried college students about their relationship weekly for six weeks.
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The data revealed the highest levels of relational uncertainty when intimacy was low.
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They found that fluctuations in perceptions of relationships are meaningful aspects of non-marital romantic relationships.
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"Our results suggest that when intimacy ebbs, doubts about the relationship emerge. Making emerging adults aware of how romantic associations inevitably pose a threat to a person's subjective well-being might help them to form more realistic romantic relationship goals," said the authors.
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The study was published in the journal Personal Relationships.

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