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The Importance of Physical Touch in Relationships: How COVID-19 Has Affected Us

Name: The Importance of Physical Touch in Relationships: How COVID-19 Has Affected Us
Uploaded: 2024-05-17T16:00:50+00:00
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Dave Willis
Description: A short YouTube talk by Dave Willis about how the COVID-19 pandemic changed people's comfort with physical touch and the resulting emotional effects. The…

17 May 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk by Dave Willis about how the COVID-19 pandemic changed people's comfort with physical touch and the resulting emotional effects. The speaker emphasizes that physical affection (not only sex) is a basic need—important for single people and essential within marriage—while noting variation in individual desire for touch.

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Now we're living in an age, the post Covid world, especially where people are afraid to touch each other. We're like, we're all germophobes all of a sudden. And I think one of the casualties of that is so many folks are starved for that physical affection. And again, I'm not just talking about sex. I'm talking about the single people in your life that maybe don't even have a romantic partner, that they need a hug. Right? They need physical contact. But in marriage especially, your spouse should never, ever feel starved of physical touch. And some people desire it more than others. For some, it's a primary love language. For others, they don't really need it nearly as much. But everybody needs some physical touch and some affection.