357: Staying Connected When it Goes from Hot to Not

Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy

Cloud10

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that 10% of sexual encounters with intimate partners go badly? Join Laurie and George for this episode where they discuss strategies partners can use when sexual situations go awry. Our hosts share a bit of vulnerability as well and moments in their own lives when pressure, expectation and disappointment got the best of them. We want you to feel confident with your partners that you can pivot when you have failures. Strategies include using playful humor to encourage reconnection, meaningful conversation to process disappointment together and slowness to create opportunities for understanding. You can give your relationship some permission to get it wrong so you can keep it hot! Check out our sponsors! Cozy Earth has the most comfortable, breathable sheets! It is like sleeping on a cloud. Use the code 'foreplay' for 35% off site-wide! Uberlube is our favorite lubricant for great sex! Silky, smooth, and safe! Order it today with the coupon code 'foreplay'! 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. George, we're talking about hot sex all the time, but you and I both know that what is it 10% of sexual encounters and badly and are kind of messy and uncomfortable and are not so great. We make a lot of mistakes.
0:19.8	Let's talk about failures. Messing up. Coming up short. We don't want to talk about coming up short. Well, if that's what it is, that's what it is, Laurie.
0:32.6	Okay, let's talk about it.
0:37.0	Welcome to For Play Radio. Couples in Sex Therapy. I'm Laurie Watson and you're sex therapist.
0:42.5	And I'm George Fallon, the couples therapist.
0:44.9	And we are passionate about talking about sex and helping you develop a way to talk to each other.
0:50.7	Our mission is to help our audience develop a healthier relationship to sex that integrates the mind, the heart, and the body.
1:00.7	Great sex, great love. Here comes the big day, Laurie.
1:05.6	October 28th, it is sneaking up on us.
1:09.0	It's a great chance for couples to be intentional and spend some time together.
1:14.1	We guarantee you're going to have some different conversations and really move that needle in the direction of more fun and safety. How do you beat that?
1:22.5	Absolutely. And we really want you to sign up. Go to our website for play sex therapy dot com.
1:29.2	You'll find it under the resource section and we just appreciate those who have already signed up.
1:34.9	Hopefully we will get you all the registration and materials very shortly and love to have the rest of you join us.
1:41.9	So I appreciate the emphasis on great sex and what works and communicating that and how important that is.
1:49.0	But there's something so valuable and redeemable about learning from failure.
1:56.5	How the humbleness in these spaces can really bring people together.
2:02.7	And I think a lot of our messaging is also seeing the opportunity and vulnerability.
2:08.8	Right. And vulnerability is certainly found in large quantities in these places where we miss each other we fail.
2:16.7	So true. And you know, my girlfriends actually at Kyfriends as well. They're out.
2:22.7	They kind of always tease me. It's like you're a sex therapist. You must have hot sex all the time.
2:28.6	And it's like, you know, the reality is is we're at least at that 10 percent.
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