How to Maintain Emotional Intimacy (For Both Partners) When You've Been Together a Long Time: Episode 387
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Emotional intimacy is a key part of your having high satisfaction in your marriage. The challenge becomes maintaining this the longer you are together with your partner. There are a number of reasons for this that you will hear in this episode, one of the obvious ones being that each partner feels connection in different ways.
In this episode you will hear a breakdown of the differences in emotional intimacy for men and women. You will hear 3 different ways that both men and women feel emotionally close so that you can begin to bring more emotional intimacy into your relationship that meet your current needs and preferences. Over time even your partner begins to seem like "just another part of your day" which reduces the potential for connection. You also might think you know what makes your partner feel emotionally close… but you will be surprised to find that idea outdated for what they need in this current season.
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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 |
| 0:05.2 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay on the same team |
| 0:10.3 | no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your hosts, Erin Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:14.5 | but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And this episode is about how to maintain emotional |
| 0:18.9 | intimacy for both partners when you've been together a long time. |
| 0:23.7 | Keyword being intimacy. And this is a topic that we know is really drawing a lot of you in. And we're going to |
| 0:32.1 | focus in today's episode on emotional intimacy, which is a huge component to being able to have better physical intimacy. |
| 0:42.3 | And we will do an episode next week on physical intimacy specifically. |
| 0:46.4 | And as we've talked about before, so a little bit of summary from previous episodes, |
| 0:52.1 | you know, the goal of marriage is to be together a long time while |
| 0:59.6 | maintaining high marital satisfaction. Now, I know that's a term that's used in psychology, |
| 1:06.4 | so you might feel like marital satisfaction. It's like, oh, it's kind of an odd term. |
| 1:12.0 | You're fulfilled. |
| 1:12.6 | You're happy. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.0 | So a satisfaction level, right? |
| 1:16.1 | And one of the main aspects of having high satisfaction is maintaining emotional connection |
| 1:25.0 | and intimacy. |
| 1:27.0 | And now we want to talk about this from both partners' perspectives. |
| 1:30.6 | We'll break this down into a male-female because emotional connection and intimacy is |
| 1:36.1 | obviously different for both people. |
| 1:37.7 | I also think it's different for each of those people and their personalities on different |
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