"It's for your health!"
By Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan
While making you feel awesome should be reason enough for your partner to massage you, new research recently presented at the British Psychological Society’s annual conference in Brighton, England, suggests giving a massage delivers the same physical and emotional benefits as receiving one — the perfect fact to bolster your case the next time you request a rub-down.
[post_ads]In the study, 19 couples attended three weeks' worth of massage training, filling out questionnaires about their physical and mental well-being, stress, coping, and relationship satisfaction, before and after each session. Across the board, these measures improved for all participants — regardless of whether they'd spent their class time kneading or getting the royal treatment. Even better: Both partners, when they were reassessed three weeks later, seemed to ride out the massage high they'd picked up — even though about one-quarter of the couples had stopped practicing their moves.
[post_ads]In the study, 19 couples attended three weeks' worth of massage training, filling out questionnaires about their physical and mental well-being, stress, coping, and relationship satisfaction, before and after each session. Across the board, these measures improved for all participants — regardless of whether they'd spent their class time kneading or getting the royal treatment. Even better: Both partners, when they were reassessed three weeks later, seemed to ride out the massage high they'd picked up — even though about one-quarter of the couples had stopped practicing their moves.
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