421: Riding the Relationship Waves

Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy

Cloud10

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever scratched your head and wondered 'why does my partner do that?' this episode is for you. What if you could understand the waves that hit you when you face rejection or failure with your partner? This episode will help you do exactly that. We've talked a lot about pursuers and withdrawers in past episodes. Join us today as we name the five waves that each position experience in a negative cycle. George shares that we need to understand the waves to develop language in these sometimes dark places. It will be hard to communicate what you don't have words for and our hosts want to help you develop the vocabulary to speak openly and honestly to your love. What better way to start off the new year than learning how to love better. Grab your surfboards listeners and come along with us to learn how to ride the relationship waves with ease! Check out our great sponsors! Addy.com for medical treatment of female low libido RocketMoney.com - to help you eliminate unwanted subscriptions that you started and no longer want. 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	You know, as we face the new year and you're making your resolutions and you want to change your relationship,
0:09.2	here's one episode for you to listen to that I really think can change things and can deepen you.
0:15.8	So as you become self-reflective before you set your course for the new year. We want you to think about this.
0:24.3	George, we're going to go deeper into the world of pursuers and withdrawers. I'm so excited to talk about
0:30.1	waves, all the waves that hit us as we're trying to do something good and it doesn't work out.
0:36.9	And we want to understand what happens to our partner and what happens to ourselves.
0:41.6	Welcome to 4 Play Sex Therapy.
0:46.0	I'm Dr. Lori Watson, your sex therapist.
0:48.0	And I'm George Valley a couples therapist.
0:51.0	We are here to talk about sex. Our mission is to help couples talk about sex in ways
0:56.8	that incorporate their body, their mind, and their hearts. And we have a
1:01.6	little bit of fun doing it, gee listen and let's change some
1:05.2	relationships. So Lori when we travel about so often people want more than just an idea or the concepts, right?
1:15.1	We want to have a felt sense of kind of what it's like to be in our partners' world
1:20.1	or even to go deeper within our own world.
1:22.4	So we talk a lot about pursuers and with drawers,
1:25.2	and today we're going to do a little exercise
1:27.0	just to help people go a little bit deeper.
1:28.9	So let's start off with pursuers.
1:31.5	Okay, well that's easy, and that my favorite so you can help. What's so hard about
1:35.9	pursuers right is this this energy that they need to kind of create change and
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