The Loving Touch

We have been married for 41 years and simply can’t keep our hands off of each other! For many years, we thought we were unique. Then we started our research for our book, and did we get a big surprise -- virtually every happily married coupled we interviewed reported the same condition! Over time we have come to call it the “tactile response.” Literally translated, it means, “I touch you here, I touch you there, I touch you everywhere!”

During our interviews with married couples we pay a lot of attention to their tactile interactions. More often than not, they sit on the couch during the interview and hold hands or place some part of their body on their mate’s body. It is their way of saying “I love you so much I simply must touch you.” So why all of this touching?

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