Emotional & Physical Turn-Offs in Marriage (and How to Create More Attraction Again): Episode 407
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 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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