239: Is Love Best When It's Fresh?

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Our romantic lives with our partners will inevitably change over time. How can we navigate these changes in long term relationships? Listen to today's show to learn some tools and insights into this thing we call LOVE. In this episode, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Experiences of early intense love contrasted with longer term profound love How can we make love and sexual desire last long term? The importance of focusing on the profound aspects of your partner Options for relationship styles depending on age and life circumstances Answers to the BIG question: Is love best when it's fresh? And much more! Aaron Ben-Ze’ev is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Haifa. His most recent book is The Arc of Love: How Our Romantic Lives Change Over Time. (University of Chicago Press, 2019). He is a former President of the University of Haifa, and he is the Founding and Former President of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions. Professor Ben-Ze'ev is considered one of the world's leading experts in the study of emotions. Most recently, his research has centered on love and the impact of time on romantic love. Full show notes and episode links at: https://idopodcast.com/239 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Join our 5 Day Couples Appreciation Challenge here: idopodcast.com/appreciation Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors BetterHelp:Get help on your own time and at your own pace. Get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/IDO. Feals is premium CBD delivered straight to your door. Become a member today by going to Feals.com/ido and get 50% off your first order. Spark My Relationship Course: For a limited time, get access to our bonus, Mastering Money Talk In Your Marriage! Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! – Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. Hey guys. What's going on? What's going on? Thanks for tuning in a one bow.
0:27.0	Hey guys. What's going on? Thanks for tuning in. Yeah, thanks for joining us today.
0:34.0	We're happy to have you here and today we have an interesting philosophical discussion with Aaron Ben
0:40.3	Zaeev, who is the author of its latest book, The Ark of Love, How Our Romantic Lives Change
0:48.8	Over Time.
0:49.8	And he is a professor of philosophy at the University of Haifa and founding in
0:56.7	former president of the European Philosophical Society for the study of
1:01.5	emotions and super interesting guy interesting topic and we just dive into
1:07.4	love and talk about kind of the differences between early intense love and contrast that with what he calls
1:17.1	profound love long term and why it's so darn hard to navigate those two things.
1:24.0	It is.
1:25.0	So if you're listening and you're in a long-term relationship and maybe you're struggling
1:28.7	with the fact that there's a missing passion or spice in your relationship, I think hearing what
1:37.4	Erin has to say about long-term relationships and the profound love that grows over time is can really make
1:47.0	you appreciate your partner and really for me it makes me want to continue to grow that profound love with Chase.
1:55.6	Yeah, it definitely gives a new perspective and we didn't solve any big philosophical
2:01.2	questions on love.
2:03.0	I think that would be impossible to do.
2:05.0	45 minutes.
2:06.0	But we enjoyed the discussion and we hope you guys do too.
2:10.0	As always, thank you for tuning in,
2:12.0	telling your friends and family about the show, and we appreciate you guys. Enjoy today's show.
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