How do you build an emotional connection with someone?

[BarryLiverstone]

Are emotional connections important to you? How do you strengthen them and can you ever sense when they are weaker? Are you usually the one maintaining it or do others make more of an effort?

[ChrisMaster69]

It’s really hard to pin down when or how that emotional connection happens, it’s often there at the start and you feel like you have known them your entire life.

Other times, you date and nothing is there until you have that emotional link.

For me I can’t be in a relationship unless I have that emotional connection, a purely physical one simply does not work.

From a BDSM perspective, this centres around Trust, Respect, Communication, Honesty.

The link between a D and s is very much an emotional one.

you can really sense the other person through that connection.

I sort of feel their emotions, how they are, their body language.
it takes both of you to develop that emotional connection, it does need looked after and both need to check on it when you feel it is off.

Checking with each other. Constantly doing that Trust, Respect, Communication, Honesty thing going.

as @PrettyPriya said it has various ingredients including Tea.

@harleigh90 fyi Tea reference….

[PrettyPriya]

@chrismaster69 @harleigh90

Tea is essential to an emotional connection. One leads to the other. I love tea. I will take all the tea. You can make me tea anytime. If I am passed out? Wake me up. I want tea.

[ChrisMaster69]

@PrettyPriya at times the saying is don’t cross the line, however I believe you actually stole the line….

I am quite happy to let Harleigh have my tea

[Harleigh90]

@PrettyPriya Couldn't agree more! Emotional connection leads to tea. If we have an emotional connection bring me tea whenever you want some!

[PrettyPriya]

@Harleigh90

Yes, tea every day... and night. Tea tea tea. I want tea. 😂

[Harleigh90]

@ChrisMaster69 We can have tea together whenever! But I respect you're currently having tea with someone else 🙃

[PrettyPriya]

@Harleigh90

Perhaps a tea party then?

[Harleigh90]

@PrettyPriya Yes!! 🙌 100%
Grasping for some tea 🤤

[DaveJord]

Yes emotional connections are important to me.

How do you strength them? Honestly it depends on the other person as much as you and there is no one right answer or sure fire way.

Yes you can sense then they are not there or weaker.

If I feel like I am the one maintaining it then I end the relationship if she doesn't seem more motivate to make the effort.

Honestly if you are feeling this way then she or he is not the person for you. When you meet the right person the emotional connection happens organically and almost immediately. If you're having to put that much work into it then she or he is not the right the person.

[Anonymous]

Communication of feelings, reciprocation of effort (put into communication).
However, it’s different for everyone.
I built an emotional connection to my boyfriend by just telling him some vulnerable things about me and my life, and expressing my emotions towards that thing. He reciprocated and told me something vulnerable as well. We would ask each other questions and ask how we felt about that. We would spend time together and be our true selves. We listened to each other, with no complaining or judgement.
That’s how we built it.

[Joshua_L_Blackmon]

older women think differently and you will too when you get older. communication is comfort.. not love.

[Opinion Owner]

Communication is comfort, comfort is trust, trust is closeness, closeness is love.

[jennifer_bloom]

Relatability, simplicity, honesty and modesty makes people love you and care about you.

[OlderAndWiser]

You don't do it by communicating through DMs and other digital media. You do it by talking voice-to-voice, Skype/FaceTime, and in person. You spend time together and build a set of shared experiences. You listen to what your partner says to understand what they say, not just so you'll know when it's your turn to talk again.

[aussieguy19]

Yes emotional connections are important.
Honesty, loyalty, respect, communication. Making someone feel safe, seen, heard and loved will allow them to let their barriers down and open upto you, which will build the emotional connection.
Yes I can sense when the connection is getting weaker and when they lie or hide things.
I'm usually the one to do it.

[PrettyPriya]

For me, it is done over time. You build on many things, like trust, understanding and communication. I think many "ingredients" go into building a strong emotional connection with your partner.

[dustybiker]

Bond like this is one of the most important things in a relationship foe me. It’s gained my listening, and remembering. For that you have to really care about them.

[dustybiker]

*for

[zr0bytz]

as an HSP i can say that emotional connections are number one in my book i long for them, i can sense their strength and tell when the other person is fading, sometimes that's because I've pushed them away because i expect to much in return because of being Highly Sensitive but im learning to deal with it. took me 40 years

[petiteinjapan]

I try not to. "Welcome to the age of un-innocence. No one has breakfast at Tiffany's, and no one has affairs to remember. Instead, we have breakfast at seven a. m., and affairs we try to forget as quickly as possible"

[BarryLiverstone]

You would rather just have the affair and move on?

[petiteinjapan]

I mean thats how it works now, dont you think

[BarryLiverstone]

No I don’t. Sure for some that’s what tinder and dating apps promote— hookups. But I still think most people want to fall in love with someone and build a relationship.

[exitseven]

It starts with a feeling of trust and as each participant opens up the more private aspects of their lives the intimacy grows and they form an emotional connection.

[kumaradit]

Slowly but steadily, with belief and faith, step by step, with mistakes and corrections, with good and bad moments, by sharing sorrow and happiness, success and failure.

[Gwenhwyfar]

I can’t describe how I do it but it’s important to me

[Joshua_L_Blackmon]

if you want to build an emotional connection with someone, talk LESS , and feel more.

[es20490446e]

By genuinely caring about the other person. For example by getting curious about what they talk and their lives.

[Juxtapose]

You try to be as good of a friend as you can while crossing your fingers and hoping they are not crazy.

[Anonymous]

Opening up and spending lots of time and going places together❤️

[linka_pat307]

By sharing each other's feelings towards each other

[noohair]

For a guy I think it is being vulnerable to a woman.

[Anonymous]

I tend to do that quickly , but I am hating that now and trying to be opposite.

[Subarugirl]

Trust, respect, boundaries and communication

[slatyb]

Time together and acceptance.

[jimmy2]

Talk clearly, love blindly, do personal things just gor her , ho to chuch with her

[emperor90]

Get to know them personally