MrsNOP:

What you describe is far better then what most of us get. Some of us are married to people that do not like touch of any kind, which of course makes it darn near impossible to become emotionally close. My wife wants emotional closeness, but without kissing, hugging, general affection (not sex), how can there ever be emotional closeness. Many of these relationship books say that us guys have to warm up the lady with non-sexual touching, but how the heck can we warm up a women that does not want ANY touching?