This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

If you're worried that you have, air quote, fallen out of love with your partner, today's

podcast will help you get clarity and direction. We're going to talk about why falling out of love

happens and what you can do about it in order to restore the love and confidence in your relationship.

We're enjoying mood music from Savage Blush with the song Coming Down.

One of my favorite bands, You can learn all about them on

Bandcamp, the savage blush.bandcamp.com. Why do people fall out of love? What happens to the magic?

More importantly, what can we do about it? Can it be revived? I cannot even tell you how many of

my clients over the years in couples counseling, marriage counseling, relationship coaching,

you know, they come in for a variety of reasons. Our communication needs improvement or, you know, we need to get on the same page.

We need to solve problems.

But then when you drill down into it, many times sooner or later, I hear stories where people

have begun to question sometimes the relationship itself, not because the

relationship is terrible, mind you, but because they don't feel the same way they used to.

And this is hard.

I mean, and if you're in a long-term relationship, you know, I'm sure you can relate.

Like, we have ups and downs, right? But this can also be very confusing and very distressing.

But it can also shift. Sometimes we can change the emotional experience that we have in our relationships,

and sometimes we can learn how to understand what's happening in a different way,

so that we can really feel confident and connected with our partner in the absence of the, you know, excited love feelings that

maybe we used to have years ago. And in today's podcast, we're going to be talking about all

of those different aspects of this very common experience. And I hope that by the end of our time together, you'll have a

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