Couples holding hands are usually a good sight to behold, more especially if they are married. It’s usually a rare sight to see married couples who have been married for many years hold the hands of their partner. Maybe holding hands is seen as an act for teenage lovers or couples probably don’t have such time to hold each other’s hands.
Holding hands come with tremendous benefits; couples who engage in this usually have a healthier relationship than those who don’t. It comes with health benefits and other tremendous benefits that would help your relationship.
Below are some astonishing benefits of holding hands:
1. IT RELIEVES STRESS
We live in a time where our jobs, businesses and even family make us feel stressed, and so many people are forced to take pills and eat certain diets as well as visit a therapist in order to combat stress.
However, stress can be combated freely by merely holding your partner’s hands. Various researches have found that holding hands can help couples relieve stress and a research conducted by Dr. James A. Coan, a psychologist at the University of Virginia and his team of researchers found that holding hands can help you to stay calm and stress free. According to Dr. James A. Coan, “The effect of this simple gesture of social support is that the brain and body don’t have to work as hard, they are less stressed in response to a threat.”
2. IT’S A SIGN OF LOVE AND COMMITMENT
When you see a couple holding hands walking along the street what do you think of first? Love and commitment! And in reality, couples who hold hands have this unspoken but assured belief that they are willing to stay committed to each other; it’s a sign that they are so in love with each other that they can’t even let go of each other’s hands.
3. IT’S A SIGN OF EQUALITY AND TOGETHERNESS
When a person sees his or her partner as inferior or not up to standard, such a relationship would never reach greater heights. Couples who hold hands see themselves as a unit that would only get better if they can’t do with each other. It also gestures respect for each other.
4. STRENGTHENS THE BOND
Ordinarily, holding hands signify love, friendship and commitment to each other, but it doesn’t end there. From a scientific point of view, when couples hold hands the body releases the hormone oxytocin, which is called the love hormone. This hormone would help create affection between couples and in turn strengthen the bond.
5. PROMOTES GOOD HEALTH
If holding hands with your partner can help relieve stress then it means you’ve been saved from so many illnesses stress can generate. Also, the hormone oxytocin which is released when couples hold each other’s hands is known for promoting certain health benefits like lowering blood pressure and building a much healthier heart.
If mere holding hands can promote good health and as well help strengthen the bond in your relationship, I wonder why couples find it hard to simply interlock their hands in each other.
Hold hands with your partner from today and enjoy these tremendous benefits.
Shawn