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EmPowered Couples with The Freemans

Emotional & Physical Turn-Offs in Marriage (and How to Create More Attraction Again): Episode 407

EmPowered Couples with The Freemans

Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Self-improvement

5.0589 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Attraction in marriage doesn't just disappear overnight, but it can fade through the habits, energy, and unspoken patterns you fall into over time.

In this episode, we reveal the biggest emotional and physical turn-offs (and turn-ons) based on anonymous submissions from real couples. This episode is for couples who want to feel that spark again—without needing to go back to the beginning.

In this episode you will hear:

  • What's quietly draining desire in your relationship
  • Five patterns that slowly erode attraction
  • How to reignite emotional connection and physical intimacy—without pressure or perfection

Plus, learn how to take small daily actions with the 30-Day Best of Us Intimacy Challenge (sign ups officially open now - only available 3x/year)

Reignite emotional & physical intimacy through small, meaningful actions by starting this September 1st challenge here 👉 mycoupleschallenge.com/best

 

Episode Time Stamps: 

3:54 – Attraction in marriage takes effort

5:34 – How attraction quietly erodes

6:06 – Biggest turn-offs (survey results)

7:23 – Biggest turn-ons (survey results)

8:54 – Turn-offs women report most

10:18 – Turn-offs men report most

11:28 – Average satisfaction score (2.07 out of 5!)

12:25 – Criticism vs appreciation

15:12 – Physical self-care and energy

19:25 – The roommate dynamic

24:30 – Resentment is blocking desire

28:00 – Emotional shutdown erodes intimacy

30:33 – Rebuilding intimacy from now, not the past

31:39 – Energy you bring to the room

32:50 – Making your partner feel admired

35:33 – Refreshing rituals to spark attraction

37:00 – Timing matters: don't wait till exhaustion

38:00 – Join The Best of Us 30-Day Couples Challenge

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship

0:07.2

advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team.

0:13.0

No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman.

0:15.8

And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know it says the Freemans.

0:19.0

Let's be honest. Attraction in marriage doesn't just stay

0:22.8

alive. It takes energy, effort, and sometimes a reality check. So we sent an anonymous

0:29.4

questionnaire asking both men and women about the biggest turnoffs and turn-ons in their marriage.

0:36.8

Some responses were surprising, some were a little funny,

0:39.7

and many showed up repeatedly, revealing the patterns that many couples are experiencing behind

0:46.3

closed doors. This episode is all about revealing those patterns, understanding how

0:51.9

attraction quietly erodes in a long-term relationship, and most importantly,

0:57.0

what you can do to keep it alive. Because attraction doesn't disappear overnight. It slowly and

1:03.4

quietly erodes when you aren't paying attention to the habits and energy that you're bringing

1:09.4

to the relationship.

1:13.5

Now, I'm glad that we're doing these surveys.

1:15.5

They're surprising to me.

1:18.4

I haven't read all of them so I can be surprised on the episode.

1:26.8

I also feel like it normalizes a lot of things, in particular, for this area of emotional and physical intimacy.

1:28.3

So I want to get right to it. I want to start with our answers for the turnoffs.

1:32.3

And these are common for both men and women.

1:35.3

Then we'll do the turn-ons and then we'll break it down more into the gender specific.

1:40.3

So turnoffs, the common ones we got from all of you,

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