{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Do You Feel That? | A Couples Intimacy & Sex Podcast","title":"The Couples Dare Game — 10 Dares to Do This Week","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2622,"description":"This week we're giving you homework. The good kind.\nIn Episode 41, Scott and Brittney introduce the Couples Dare Game — ten dares designed to be completed over the course of one week, escalating from easy and playful all the way to genuinely bold. One dare per day. Both partners playing. No skipping.\n\nFrom an unprompted appreciation ambush and a no-phone evening, to a question you've never asked, a handwritten note, an explicit midday text, an extended no-agenda touch session, a genuine fantasy share, an intentional intimate encounter, a bucket list item and a debrief that ties the whole week together.\nThese aren't theoretical. Scott and Brittney want you to actually do them and they tell you exactly why each one matters, what to expect, and how to follow through even when it feels slightly uncomfortable.\nThe couples who do this dare game won't just have a good week. They'll have a reference point — a week that showed them what their relationship looks and feels like when they're both fully showing up.\nIn this episode:\nThe rules — why pacing matters and why skipping is against them\nDare #1: The Appreciation Ambush — specific, unprompted, out of nowhere\nDare #2: The No-Phone Evening — what fills the space when screens disappear\nDare #3: The Question You've Never Asked — Gottman's love maps in practice\nDare #4: The Handwritten Note — why paper lands differently than a text\nDare #5: The Midday Text — anticipation as an intimacy tool\nDare #6: The Extended Touch Session — twenty minutes, no agenda, both ways\nDare #7: The Fantasy Share — the most vulnerable dare on the list\nDare #8: The Intentional Encounter — preparation as its own form of intimacy\nDare #9: The Bucket List Item — turning inspiration into action\nDare #10: The State of the Dare — the debrief that makes it all stick\nRemember — intimacy is not automatic... it's guided.\n\nCouples Intimacy Resources\n\nLooking to improve your sex life, strengthen your marriage, or deepen intimacy in your relationship?\nDownload...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Nobw__SsL1MHaP84O1DHUYOUl24hhbPPKmJ36fCapGw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84MGQ4/ZmYxZjRjMDkxMDhk/NTliNzU5OTZhOGMz/ZDhmZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}