There’s a lot of confusion about intimacy, what it really is, and how to make it happen. There are couples married decades that can be physically close but don’t know how to be emotionally intimate.

Here’s why emotional maturity, insight, self-control and communication skills can sometimes mask a deeper fear of closeness.

Few human endeavors are as rewarding and potentially frightening as acts of intimacy. In Robert Sternberg's triad of love—passion, intimacy, commitment—the intimacy stage of a relationship ...

Happy marriages aren’t happier because the people in them got luckier, married their soulmate, or avoid conflict altogether.