Health Beyond Years

  I used to believe that desire was mostly about the physical. The right mood, the right setting, and the right touch. But over the years I realized something deeper. True desire in a woman’s heart often begins long before a kiss or a caress. It begins with how safe she feels, how understood she feels, and how deeply connected she is to her partner. Emotional intimacy is not just a nice addition to romance. It is the very spark that fuels female desire. I remember watching a couple I knew who had been married for more than twenty years. They still looked at each other with a glow that was hard to ignore. It was not because they were perfect. They had arguments like everyone else. But they had built a kind of closeness that made desire flow naturally between them. I wanted to understand this better, so I started to explore what science and experience both say about the link between emotional intimacy and desire. The Science of Emotional Intimacy Researchers in psychology and neurosc...