251: Strengthening Intimacy And Connection In Your Relationship

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

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

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We all want to feel more connection and intimacy in our relationships. However, it's not always easy to understand how to make this happen. Listen to today's show for actionable tips to increase the connection and intimacy with your partner. In this episode, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: What should intimacy look like in a relationship? What to do if your partner has difficulty opening up to you to create more intimacy Why we have different ideas of what intimacy is to us personally and the importance of understanding this Actionable tools to create more intimacy and connection How to discuss your desire for more intimacy with your partner And much more! Dr. Marisa T. Cohen is a relationship coach, relationship researcher, and teaches college-level psychology courses. She is the author of From First Kiss to Forever: A Scientific Approach to Love, a book that relates relationship science research to everyday experiences and real relationship issues confronted by couples. She is also the author of Finding Love: The Scientific Take, a Psychology Today blog and Love Lessons, a Long Island Weekly newspaper column. Full show notes and episode links at: https://idopodcast.com/251 Spark My Relationship Course: Get $100 off our online course. Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! 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. Uberlube is a luxurious, high-grade silicone lubricant made from clean, body-friendly ingredients. Get 10% off and free shipping when you use our code “IDo” at UberLube.com. 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.
0:29.0	What's going on Love Tribe?
0:31.0	Thanks for tuning in.
0:32.0	Thank you for joining us today. On today's show we welcome
0:36.3	back Dr. Marissa T Cohen and she is a relationship coach, relationship researcher and teaches college level psychology
0:44.9	courses. She is also the author of from first kiss to forever and has a blog on
0:51.3	psychology today.
0:53.0	And today we dive in and talk about strengthening our connection and intimacy in our relationships.
1:01.0	And Marissa gives us some great tools to do that to understand how we connect
1:06.3	individually and from our partner, how to communicate that and some exercises that we can do to help increase our connection.
1:15.8	And not to give it away, but one of those exercises is the 36 questions that we have talked on the show about before and is also part of our
1:26.6	a lesson in our course spark my relationship and so we want to give those questions to you for free just because we love you guys so in the show notes you can click on the link to access those questions and we will email them to you.
1:43.8	So, we highly recommend just checking them out using them on a date night.
1:48.9	We talk about it in the show, but you can spread them out over several date nights, do it at home instead of watching a
1:54.8	Netflix show. They're really fun and a great way to connect with your partner.
1:59.2	So as always, thank you so much for listening to the show, sharing with your friends and family for subscribing
2:06.7	and for checking out all the free resources that we have for you guys on our website.
2:12.1	And if you're not a member of our love tribe
2:14.2	fam on Facebook you can go over to Facebook.com slash love tribe fam to join and
2:21.4	you can also sign up for our 14 day happy couple challenge on our
2:25.4	website. We appreciate you guys so much and enjoy the show. Today's show is
2:30.7	brought to you by our online course, Spark My Relationship.
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