Aly Bullock: Navigating sexual disconnection in long-term relationships
Dial Emma
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help.
This week, I'm speaking with Aly Bullock, a licensed marriage and family therapist and Head of Relationships at Paired, to discuss the complexities of sexual desire discrepancies in long-term relationships. Aly joins me to unpack a dilemma from a listener who feels sexually rejected in her marriage, despite having a strong partnership in other areas.
We explore the emotional impact of unmet sexual needs, the importance of open communication, and the societal stereotypes that often silence women in similar situations. Aly highlights the need for couples to have honest conversations about their desires, as well as giving some incredibly useful practical advice on how couples can reconnect emotionally and physically and find understanding and empathy for each other's emotional experience.
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| 0:29.2 | Nice. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello and welcome to Dial Emma, the podcast where your dilemmas meet my therapeutic insights. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm Emery Terrell, Psychotherapist author, and well-recovering people-pleaser. |
| 0:42.4 | Each week, I'll be unpacking real-life questions from listeners just like you. |
| 0:46.9 | The big ones, the small ones, the ones that keep you up at night, |
| 0:50.5 | offering practical tools and gentle truths to help you find your way through. |
| 0:55.3 | So if you've got a question, you don't know how to ask out loud. |
| 0:58.7 | You've come to the right place. |
| 1:08.1 | Welcome to this week's episode of Dial Emma, and I'm absolutely delighted today to be joined by the expert we need when we're unpacking this dilemma. In fact, probably the expert that many of us need, certainly if we're based in the UK, because this is an important conversation. And sometimes I wonder whether we're actually equipped to have those |
| 1:28.4 | conversations by ourselves. So, fear not, we don't have to. We have Ali Bullock with us today. |
| 1:33.9 | Ali is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She's a communication coach and she's a nationally |
| 1:38.6 | recognized voice on what helps couples stay close emotionally and sexually. As head of relationships at Paired, |
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