Dating Tips with Faye Laurence
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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In this weeks retrospective episode Vic has a chat with the amazing Faye Laurence about dating and sober sex. Is it as awkward as you'd imagine?
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, sober sex. |
| 0:08.5 | Luckily for me, it's never really been an issue because I was married when I got sober. |
| 0:13.5 | So it's never really been that bad. |
| 0:14.8 | I must say my libido probably isn't as high as it used to be. |
| 0:18.4 | I have three young kids rung around. |
| 0:20.0 | Me and my husband pass |
| 0:21.2 | each other in the hallway with bottles of milk and give each other a peck on the cheek. You know, |
| 0:25.4 | that's kind of the chapter of our lives that we're within at the moment. It's just so |
| 0:29.2 | hectic, but we try and make time for each other and we do our best. And, you know, sex is lovely |
| 0:34.2 | because, you know, we love each other and we don't, you know, resent each other or this. There's no weirdness because we know each other so well. And he loves my body. I'm very lucky and my body is not 100% perfect. Whose it is. But so, you know, it's fine. It works out okay. But I cannot imagine being sober and having sex with somebody I've met on a date. For me, even just thinking about it, like showing my body to somebody that I've just met |
| 0:58.2 | or even if it's the 10th date, I imagine feeling so self-conscious. |
| 1:03.4 | Like I just cannot imagine. |
| 1:04.8 | I think I would avoid it actually. |
| 1:06.5 | How was it for you? |
| 1:08.2 | All of those things you say. |
| 1:09.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.3 | Right. |
| 1:12.4 | All of those things you say. Yeah, right. All of those things you say. |
| 1:14.6 | So, you know, I mean, the first time you have sex with someone, that's usually quite a daunting thing anyway. |
| 1:21.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.2 | Unless you're drunk. |
| 1:23.3 | Yeah, that's what I mean. |
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