Dave Willis explains how physical touch strengthens marriage bonds beyond sex. Touch releases physiological substances that deepen attachment, and research links the amount of non-sexual physical contact to life expectancy.
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But for some reason, I feel like there's such a disconnect in us making the jump to husband and wife. How that attachment, you know, theory still applies and that we're forming more attachment through the touch as well, Right? Yeah, because there's literally things released within our body that I will share in just a minute that just kind of connects us and makes us feel bonded. And so, you know, and it's not just through sex. I mean, sex is the ultimate bond for husband and wife, specifically designed by God for marriage between one man and one woman. And it does do all these things. And we have a lot of physiological things happening when we have sex, but there's also a lot happening through those things leading up to the bedroom that involve physical touch.
Well, physical touch by itself is important. I mean, I saw a study that talked about how life expectancy is impacted by the amount of physical touch, not necessarily by sex.