Vanessa Marin
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Podcast Appearances
I would know.
He'd ask me out on Friday.
Hey, you want to go hang out on Friday?
We'll go to dinner, come back to my place.
We're having sex.
That's scheduling sex.
It's not that we've never had to schedule sex before.
Now we're old and boring and we have to do it.
We've been scheduling sex our entire relationship.
Ooh, I'll give you three.
First one, gratitude, which you might not expect.
But research has shown that gratitude is actually the number one predictor of marital satisfaction.
And we talked earlier about how emotional and physical intimacy are really deeply intertwined.
So if we want to feel closer to our partner and get like the maximum bang for our buck, gratitude is the fastest thing that you can do.
It's literally a few seconds to say, I appreciate this about you.
I saw that you did that.
Thank you so much for this.
Second thing is some form of physical contact with each other.
We talked a lot about non-sexual touch.
It's so important to have that non-sexual touch.