Getting the Sizzle and that Loving Feeling Back in Your Relationship (Podcast Episode 258)

If you’re listening to me right now, you’ve felt some kind of decline in your relationship or, as the song goes, “you’ve lost that loving feeling.” Or maybe you just want to make sure that decline never happens to you. Either way, it’s important to know that you can absolutely continue to have a strong physical connection and fall more in love with your partner as the years progress. But how do you do it? Today, we’re going to discuss the research (as always), and then I’m coming at you with my top five tips for getting the sizzle and that loving feeling back in your relationship.

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Research and Resources for Getting the Sizzle and that Loving Feeling Back in Your Relationship

Instead of Date Nights Work on Micro-Connections

Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen Fisher

Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel

The Normal Bar: The Surprising Secrets of Happy Couples and What They Reveal About Creating a New Normal in Your Relationship Paperback by Chrisanna Northrup,  Pepper Schwartz and  James Witte

Campos, B., Wang, S.-w., Plaksina, T., Repetti, R. L., Schoebi, D., Ochs, E., & Beck, M. E. (2013). Positive and negative emotion in the daily life of dual-earner couples with children. Journal of Family Psychology, 27(1), 76–85. https://doi.org/10.1037/a

Marriage In Motion: The Natural Ebb And Flow Of Lasting Relationships by Richard Schwartz, Jacqueline Olds

Garcia, Luis T.  Perceptions of sexual experience and preferences for dating and marriage. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality; Toronto Vol. 15, Iss. 2, (2006): 85-94.

Fisher, H., Aron, A., & Brown, L. L. (2005). Romantic love: An fMRI study of a neural mechanism for mate choice. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 493(1), 58-62. https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.20772

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