Seven Year Switch
Seven Year Switch

Seven Year Switch (2015)

10.03 seasonsReality

Four married couples try to save their marriages by entering into a social experiment. During this experiment, the four couples switch spouses and live with another participants spouse for two weeks as husband and wife.

📺 Seasons & Episodes

Season 18 episodes
Switch Therapy

1. Switch Therapy

60 min

Four married couples are introduced as they embark on an emotionally difficult journey to help repair their relationships. Viewers learn each of their love stories--how they met, how they fell in love, how their marriages took a turn for the worst and why they are willing to risk everything in order to save it.

Initial Attraction

2. Initial Attraction

60 min

The experimental married couples get to know each other while navigating their new living quarters and sleeping arrangements.

Fantasies Fulfilled

3. Fantasies Fulfilled

60 min

During the first week of the experiment, the couples explore each other's passions, personalities and patience.

Road to Intimacy

4. Road to Intimacy

60 min

The experimental married couples are faced with challenging situations that will force them to either open up or shut down emotionally.

Diving Deep

5. Diving Deep

60 min

Dr. Jessica delivers surprising news to the emotionally invested couples as the experiment nears the halfway point.

Facing Regret

6. Facing Regret

60 min

The couples encounter the biggest challenge yet as the experiment nears its end.

Reunited with Reality

7. Reunited with Reality

60 min

Reunited back home, the married couples share their experiences and concerns with each other, and try not to fall back into their old habits.

Accepting the Truth

8. Accepting the Truth

60 min

Two weeks have passed since the married couples have reunited, and now they're challenged with the decision of whether they've made the right choice with their spouse, or whether it's time to part ways forever.

Season 28 episodes
Season 310 episodes
Switch Perfect

1. Switch Perfect

60 min

Four couples embark on an emotional experience in an effort to save their real marriages. They say goodbye to the lives they know and switch spouses with a complete stranger, taking part in an experimental marriage for two weeks.

At the Flip of a Switch

2. At the Flip of a Switch

60 min

The experimental couples are getting to know each other in a brand new living situation. By the end of the day, boundaries are tested as the couples re-discover what it’s like to build a connection and attempt to navigate their initial attractions.

Revelations and Realizations

3. Revelations and Realizations

60 min

The experimental couples are assigned activities to help them explore each other’s passions and personalities. Some couples are forced out of their comfort zones, while others become too comfortable. Tensions rise when the experts drop by with a surprising announcement.

Vowing to Be Vulnerable

4. Vowing to Be Vulnerable

60 min

Emotions run high as the couples cope with seeing footage of their real spouses with their experimental partners; the experimental couples are tasked to become more vulnerable with one another, but not everyone is ready to open up.

Close Encounters

5. Close Encounters

60 min

With the switch almost halfway over, the experimental couples participate in an exercise to help build emotional intimacy, with some continuing to open up and others beginning to shut down; the experts check in and deliver a surprising announcement.

Confronting the Truth

6. Confronting the Truth

60 min

The experimental couples confront their biggest challenge yet, as they come face-to-face with their experimental spouses' real spouse; not everyone likes what they learn, and feelings of jealousy and regret begin to surface for some.

Emotional Bootcamp

7. Emotional Bootcamp

60 min

As switch therapy begins to wind down, the experimental couples learn how to rely on a spouse in order to navigate the unexpected; the couples get a new perspective on their time in the switch at intense group summits.

No Regrets, Just Results

8. No Regrets, Just Results

60 min

The experimental couples reflect on their time together. As the couples prepare to say goodbye, letting go of their “new life” proves difficult for some.

In Good Times and Bad

9. In Good Times and Bad

60 min

Back home, the couples are reunited with their real spouses, where new revelations are brought to the forefront. Some use the lessons they’ve learned to try and save their marriages, but others begin to fall back into old habits.

The Time Has Come

10. The Time Has Come

60 min

The couples reunite and must choose between parting ways or recommitting to their marriages.

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