Secret to Romantic Intimacy: Skip the NaggingThu Feb 13,12:56 PM By Jacqueline Stenson

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Health) - Avoiding nagging and yelling in a romantic relationship may be more important for building intimacy than all those thoughtful things you do for your sweetie, new research suggests.

"You want to try to avoid those negative behaviors and not do things you can't take back," said Betty Witcher, an assistant professor of psychology at Peace College in Raleigh, North Carolina.

"If you're yelling, that's going to have more of an effect than doing something nice," she told Reuters Health.

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