You feel like you're missing something in your relationship? There is a study that proves that your partner’s interest can improve significantly with a simple change. When you start applying this rule you'll feel it's the best strategy to spice up the relationship.
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16/08/2026
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Do you feel distant and avoid sexual intercourse in recent times? A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology detected a possible cause.
If you're not a good listener that could be the cause of your partner's withdrawal. The good news is that if that is the problem, these experts have discovered the solution and “obvious tip”: Start hearing it more and better.
You may have tried to solve the problem in a thousand and one ways, but the solution may be in your hands. In this case, in your ears.
According to the researchers, feeling that the partner is attentive, understanding and interested may be associated with a “growing sexual desire for this partner” – to this behavior, these experts call “partner responsiveness” which, in practice, may mean “the partner’s responsiveness”.
To verify this theory, the authors of the study resorted to three different scenarios, and what obtained more positive results was related to a close communication and availability to listen to the partner.
“In general, reception was associated with increased desire, but more markedly in women. Feeling special and the perceived value of the partner as a partner explained the link between receptiveness and desire, suggesting that receptive partners were seen as people who made the individual feel valued, in addition to being considered better partners and therefore more desirable sexually ", describe.
Yet note that not all marital problems depend on this problem. Meet here's another cause that might be cooling your relationship.