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Save My Marriage Podcast
We’re not here just to “fix” marriages.
We’re here to help high-achieving couples remember who they really are, individually and together.
To shed the roles, the resentment, the silent suffering and rise into a relationship that’s deeply connected, passionately alive, and built on truth, trust, and team.
We’ve lived the disconnect. We’ve hit rock bottom. We’ve sat on the edge of “too late.”
But we also know what’s possible when two people choose to rise, together.
This isn’t therapy. This is transformation.
This is the new paradigm of marriage.
This is the Save My Marriage Podcast.
Hosted by Aston & Adam Simmonds, relationship coaches and founders of Save My Marriage School, this show delivers weekly real-talk episodes packed with stories, strategies, and step-by-step frameworks to help you:
- Rebuild trust
- Rekindle connection
- Communicate without conflict
- Overcome resentment
- And recreate a marriage you both love being in
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Save My Marriage Podcast
Hidden Reason Couples Struggle With Affection
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Most couples aren't struggling with affection because one partner is "just not affectionate" they're struggling because of childhood attachment patterns that rewired how safety and closeness feel. This episode breaks down the hidden reason affection disappears in marriage and gives you a practical path back to real connection.
In this episode:
Why affection avoidance is a protective strategy formed in childhood — not a personality trait — and how to recognise it in yourself or your partner
The pursuit-withdrawal dynamic that turns affection into a battlefield, including how anxious attachment and hypervigilance make it worse
How Adam went from being physically uncomfortable holding hands in public to completely rewiring that blueprint — and what that process actually looked like
The 1% behavioural shifts that rebuild affection safely, and why demanding more affection always creates the opposite result.
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