Boosts Oxytocin Holding hands also makes you feel good. Physical touch with a partner like cuddling, hugging, and hand holding triggers the release of oxytocin. Oxytocin is often called “the love hormone” because it is released during an orgasm.
“Holding hands invokes a positive feeling about one another, so you both feel sexy and wanted. It's almost like foreplay." Cue all the feels: Just like massage, kissing, and hugging, “research shows that touch, like holding hands, releases oxytocin, a neurotransmitter that gives you that feel-good buzz,” says Coleman.
Also, holding hands could be another way of trying to build intimacy with him. If he is someone who likes the public display of affection, holding hands in a relationship might mean so much to him. He would be happy to know that you're proud to show him off as your partner.
03/7The love hormone
A study done at the University of California Los Angeles suggests holding hands also helps in increasing the secretion of the love hormone oxytocin, that is proven to improve empathy, trust and even sexual activity in couples.
People hold hands for many reasons, but if there is a single common denominator unifying them all, it's probably a felt sense of security – a sense that we are not alone that brings with it the knowledge that we have a companion, a helper, a guide, another mind who knows about and is interested in ours.
Holding hands is a way of showing our affection
"It symbolises passion and a strong connection between two people who deeply care about each other," she says. But not all hand holding is romantic, as Dr Becky Spelman explains.
Holding hands is connected to both emotional and physical intimacy. We don't hold hands when we're angry. We find holding hands with those we don't love distasteful. And we do hold hands when we warmly welcome someone into our personal space.
Strengthens Your Bond
Oxytocin is associated with feelings of empathy, compassion, and trust. These are some of the very emotions crucial to building a strong and lasting partnership. Holding hands with your partner regularly strengthens your connection and encourages the development of those essential feelings.
Interlocked fingers: When couples interlock their fingers, it shows a deeper connection, and that the person is more vulnerable and emotionally and physically connected at that moment. Non-interlocked fingers suggest a more casual relationship.
Holding hands can express affection, comfort, warmth, pain release, safety, psychological closeness, and empathy. To many, hand holding can mean the world, while others may not be so keen to hold hands. Couples holding hands can reflect formality, familiarity, superiority, and even submissiveness.
Well, if someone you've just started dating is holding your hand with your fingers interlocked, it definitely means they feel good with you and want to establish some sort of physical contact to convey that. If it's a guy you've had your eyes on for a while, it's good news. In all likelihood, the feelings are mutual.
When a guy holds your hand and you're not dating, it usually means he's trying to show affection. It's an expression of physical touch that can be quite intimate and strongly evoke feelings of connection and comfort. It could mean he cares about you, or simply that he enjoys being close to you in a platonic way.
Holding hands is even more powerful because when we interlace our fingers, the pressure in the touch slows our heart rate, decreases our blood pressure, and puts us in a more relaxed state. Even when we are subjected to pain and discomfort, we generate less of the stress hormone cortisol if we are holding hands.
It's a physical response to being sexually attracted to your partner, and holding hands or hugging is getting closer to fulfilling that. So yes, it's completely normal, and guys get “sticky-britches” too for the same reason.
If your partner intertwines the fingers when he or she holds your hands, this signifies love runs deep through the veins of your relationship. It is also a sign the bond is based on more than just physical attraction. Love, trust, care and respect are the four pillars of the relationship.
Of course someone who tries to hold your hand is into you. It's on the bolder side of flirting, but it still definitely counts.
For those of you who don't know, the thumb thing is a phenomenon where a male will place his hand on a person and subsequently start grazing his thumb back and forth on said person in an absentminded fashion. I'm 1000% sure this sort of movement is a universally inherited genetic reflex for all men.
03/8Interlaced fingers
This position means that your relationship is based on passion and a very strong bond exists between you both. Both of you interlock fingers with each other firmly, as a sign of passionate love. You wouldn't like to let go of each other's hold easily.
Holding hands
Like the leg hug and the cheek to cheek, this cuddle position respects the individual comfort of each partner, while still valuing touch. Holding hands signifies support and partnership. It is an action that is both intimate and innocent.
James Coan of the University of Virginia found that when people hold hands, their brains don't work as hard to cope with stress. When we hold hands, (or hug and touch), our bodies release oxytocin. Its role is to calm and destress, and it is thought that touch triggers the body into producing this hormone.
In adults, hand-holding may lower stress and reduce pain. In infants and children, it can also reduce stress and help with sleep and emotional well-being. Instead of spending money on something fleeting, try giving your partner's hand a squeeze or your toddler a cuddle.
Physical intimacy is built through actions like cuddling, hugging, hand-holding, back-rubbing, and lap-sitting. You can think about it as the kind of stuff someone whose primary love language is physical touch might seek out from a friend or family member.
Physical intimacy includes any physical contact ranging from holding hands to sexual intercourse. It can be as small as a shoulder brush to cuddles and caressing. Physical intimacy can build and is built on trust and create feelings of warmth, bonding, and closeness between people.
Friends holding hands is far from something shameful. In fact, it's a positive influence for every human being regardless of your gender, culture, or social status.