152. The Disconnection Struggle is Real, with Leah Carey

Marriage and Martinis

Adam Silverstein

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

So many of us are feeling like we have hit the "pandemic wall." We're exhausted, emotionally drained, and we're surrounded by our kids 24/7. Living in sweatpants and never getting a proper date night can definitely take its toll on romance, and at the end of the day, we just want to fall into bed and not be bothered. Sex and intimacy coach Leah Carey helps Danielle and Adam understand what baby steps we can take to bring that connection back, and try to keep the frustration and distance we feel with our partners down to a minimum until life resumes as we once knew it (or as close to that as possible). We discuss how medication, alcohol, job loss, and monetary worries are all affecting people's sex drive. It's definitely normal, and it's happening to more couples than you think. This is definitely one of those very relatable episodes, and as always, Danielle and Adam are completely honest about the state of things and how they might be willing to take steps to change them.

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0:00.0	Oh, Hey everybody welcome to marriage to theini's. I'm Adam.
0:23.6	There is Danielle.
0:24.6	Hi.
0:25.6	So I am always so excited when we have Leah Carry on.
0:29.4	I think it's been three or four times. I have to double check if you haven't listened to the
0:32.9	other episodes with her make sure you do because she teaches us something in
0:36.5	every single episode and she makes me feel better about intimacy and right now especially when so many of us are going through this period of disconnect not all of us but some of us going through this period of disconnect with intimacy and sex and romance because of the pandemic and because of the stress involved,
0:58.8	it's just as nice to know that we're not alone. And I think we both, as much as we talk,
1:03.8	because we have this podcast,
1:05.0	I think sometimes there are things
1:06.4	we're not comfortable to say,
1:07.7	and having her there as sort of a mediator in a sense
1:11.1	is really helpful because I felt like I could say certain things to you
1:14.8	and get some things off my chest that I think a lot of partners are going to
1:20.0	identify with and it's nice having her there just letting me know that what I'm
1:24.9	saying is okay. Well I totally agree with you I've spoken to her about
1:28.9	masturbation before there's not very many people that I've talked to about masturbation a few hundred thousand not directly
1:36.1	Like I couldn't look in their eye and talk to them and say hey listen here's my masturbation story
1:40.8	Oh, all right you know I could. Like anybody like you just like
1:45.2	go Instagram live? Walking to Walmart just start talking. Right. Exactly. But she
1:50.9	just makes the point is she makes you feel so comfortable.
1:53.4	So right now, no matter what you're going through
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