Welcome to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience dating, love and relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach and attachment expert, Stephanie Rigg, and I'm really glad you're here.

Thank you. and I'm really glad you're here. Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.

In today's episode, I'm going to be answering all of your questions around sex and attachment.

So talking about how our attachment styles influence the way we experience and relate to sex,

how that might raise its own unique issues and how to really overcome them,

having a level of self-awareness and sensitivity to your particular needs, preferences, and growth edges from an attachment point

of view as it relates to sex. So super valuable. And, you know, I've been talking about this

on Instagram over the past week or so and have been really inundated with people saying that it resonates

with them and that they thought that they were alone in having these struggles or they've never

felt so understood.

And so I just want to emphasize that because I think that sex is one of those areas where

the vast majority of us do carry a level of shame.

And so to the extent that you're having issues in your relationship on the sexual front,

it's really easy to internalize those to create a story whereby we're telling ourselves

there must be something wrong with us.

If our partner doesn't want to have sex or if there's some change in the sexual dynamic,

then something's very wrong.

And we sort of go into this, you know, catastrophizing and really carrying a lot of weight around

that, but also not talking about it because the shame feels too much.

So hopefully we can dispel some misconceptions and arm you with greater knowledge,

both of yourself and of your partner, so that if and when these problems arise or these

...