287: Hope For A Sexless Marriage?

Brave Love Great Sex – Couples Therapy Podcast

Cloud10

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When someone is committed to fidelity and their partner absolutely does not want sex—is there any hope? Technically, sexless is considered less than 10x a year—but for some people, there is no sex. Sometimes each partner still has desire but they don’t know how to talk about it. They may even masturbate on their own but feel it’s too complicated to share with their partner. Sometimes the sexual pursuer just gives up and becomes a sexual withdrawer. The danger of a sexless marriage is that the couple may not feel the love of or for their partner and become subject to the temptation of others. They may long for the sexual connection they shared in the beginning; George and Laurie share some ideas about how taking their clothes off again can be safer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following content is not suitable for children.
0:02.4	Can you imagine being married and really never having sex?
0:07.2	Sounds terrible, Laurie.
0:09.1	It is terrible because we want our romantic relationships to be
0:13.6	emotionally secure, but we want them to be sexual too.
0:17.2	Who would want to be in a relationship that's not sexual?
0:20.0	I guess there are people that do, but I'm talking about people where at least one of them
0:24.2	wants sex that seems terrible. So let's talk about it and figure this out.
0:28.3	Awesome.
0:31.8	Welcome to For Play Radio. Couples in Sex Therapy.
0:34.8	I'm Laurie Watson and you're Sex Therapist.
0:37.3	And I'm George Fallon, your couples therapist.
0:39.7	And we are passionate about talking about sex and helping you develop a way to talk to each other.
0:45.6	Our mission is to help our audience develop a healthier relationship to sex that integrates
0:51.9	the mind, the heart, and the body.
0:55.3	Laurie, I was really shocked to hear the statistics that 20% of couples are considered
1:02.4	sexless, having sex less than one or two times a year.
1:06.8	Yeah. I mean, it's less than 10 times as technically.
1:09.8	Yeah, I like to make up my numbers a little bit to strengthen my argument.
1:14.8	But people are right. People are having sex once or twice a year or not at all.
1:19.1	Or not at all. And it's not a rare exception. It's actually quite common.
1:23.6	You know, chances are you know somebody that's not having sex and it appears like they have,
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