Link: Connection, Relationships, Digital Safety, and Sexuality
Link means a connection or association between people, ideas, events, or things and may describe emotional, sexual, medical, or digital connections.
Connection: Emotional Bonds, Attraction, Intimacy, and Consent
Connection is a link or sense of closeness between people that may be emotional, romantic, social, intellectual, physical, or sexual.
Relationship: Connection, Intimacy, Boundaries, and Consent
Relationship means an ongoing connection between people and may involve affection, intimacy, sex, commitment, family, friendship, or shared responsibilities.
Sexual Motivation: Desire, Behavior, Relationships, and Consent
Sexual motivation is the combination of biological, emotional, psychological, relational, and social factors that influence interest in sexual activity.
Sexual Yearning: Erotic Longing, Desire, Intimacy, and Consent
Sexual yearning is an intense and persistent longing for erotic contact, sexual closeness, physical intimacy, or a desired sexual experience.
Cold Self: Emotional Distance, Intimacy, and Self-Protection
Cold self is an informal phrase describing an emotionally distant, guarded, restrained, or seemingly unfeeling side of someone’s behavior.
Exogamy: Outside-Group Marriage, Kinship, and Partner Choice
Exogamy is the practice or expectation of marrying outside a particular clan, lineage, family group, caste, religion, or community.
Love Marriage: Romantic Choice, Family, Compatibility, and Consent
Love marriage is a marriage in which partners primarily choose each other through romantic love, attraction, compatibility, or an existing relationship.
Widowerhood: Grief, Identity, Intimacy, and Life After Loss
Widowerhood is the state or period of life experienced by a man after his spouse dies and may affect grief, identity, companionship, sexuality, and future relationships.
Widowhood: Grief, Identity, Intimacy, and Life After Loss
Widowhood is the state or period of life following a spouse’s death and may affect grief, identity, family life, finances, companionship, and future intimacy.