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handholding

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hand·hold·ing  (hndhldng)
n.
Strong personal support and reassurance, especially to alleviate tension and anxiety.


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With Patience Stanhope, a wealthy hypochondriac of the first order who requires daily handholding and weekly house calls only to ignore all of his advice, Bowman earns his salary.
Bareboat chartering sounds nice until you realize that your untrained familial crew will need a lot of handholding and you're responsible for anything and everything--not exactly what I'd call relaxing.
These findings raise the question of whether young women may meet these relationship goals with noncoital behaviors, such as handholding or spending time with a partner.
 
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