The Passion Paradox in Long-Term Relationships with Dr. Emily Jamea
There is nothing quite like the feeling you get when your new relationship becomes official. That shift from casual dating into knowing that you and your partner are truly becoming a committed team. You develop relationship rituals for when you see each other, and you’re beginning to create a framework for navigating life together. For so many people, it’s simultaneously grounding and intoxicating.
But it’s almost inevitable that as relationship familiarity grows and partners become more secure with each other, that initial passion starts to wane.
And it doesn’t just happen when a new sense of security takes the place of the honeymoon phase — it actually happens throughout the course of our relationship and our lives.
It’s the paradox of long-term relationships: The qualities that help keep a partnership alive over years or even decades are often the exact opposite of what you need to maintain a fulfilling sex life.
Dr. Emily Jamea, a sex therapist and author of Anatomy of Desire: 5 Secrets to Create Connection and Cultivate Passion, joins us to discuss why sex and intimacy change in long-term love and what we can do to keep passion alive.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- What makes sex amazing in new relationships and how those qualities change in a long-term partnership.
- The surprising behaviors that couples do or don’t do that gradually erode desire.
- How couples can emerge from a sexless phase and reignite passion.
I loved this conversation, and I think you will too!
Xxoo Darcy
