If you live close to them
If you live close to them
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It's not only important to be close to someone emotionally — you should also strive to be close physically. According to an experiment at MIT, the proximity of students' dorm rooms increased how close they felt to one another.
This is because they had more passive interactions, like brief meetings as they passed one another in the hallway, which made them feel more intimate.
It's known as the mere exposure effect, which states that familiarity plays a huge role in attraction.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/weird-psychological-reasons-people-fall-in-love-2015-2?op=1#ixzz3RswDbpfj