Dr. Laurie Watson - How To Ask For Sex, Sexless Marriages, And How To Keep Things Vibrant

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Connor Beaton

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education, Mental Health, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Sex is where so many couples' abilities to communicate, be vulnerable, be expressive, and navigate each other's needs gets tested. Now, this can be a great thing—it can also be where things fall apart. This week, I sat down with Dr. Laurie Watson to get her insight on some of the bigger challenges men and couples face sexually: sexless marriages, expressing your desires effectively, and the straight-up differences in how men and women approach sex. This was a thoroughly enjoyable conversation, so if you're with a partner, I hope you listen together and maybe open up some dialogue! Laurie Watson, Ph.D., MA, LMFT, LCMHC, Director of Awakenings, certified sex therapist, certified EFT therapist, certified addictions specialist from IICS, has thirty years of experience working with couples and individuals about love and sex. Laurie says, “I’ve never seen a couple who I didn’t feel hope for about their healing and happiness.” Laurie is the host of the popular podcast, FOREPLAY RADIO, ranked in the top 10 on iTunes under Sexuality. Laurie authored her first book Wanting Sex Again—How to Rediscover Desire and Heal a Sexless Marriage in December 2012. She’s a popular blogger, with over 15 million reads between her WebMD blog and Psychology Today Online. Laurie also lectures physician residents, PAs, and PTs at Duke’s and UNC Chapel Hill’s medical schools on sexual function and dysfunction. She has been published or quoted in almost every nationally popular media resource including the New York Times, Buzzfeed, HuffPo, WebMD, Glamour, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, etc. A popular media figure, she has appeared on the Katie Couric Show and Vogue Weddings and is regularly on radio and television in Raleigh and Greensboro. Director/owner of Awakenings, Counseling for Couples and Sexuality, Laurie supervises 11 clinicians in both Raleigh and Greensboro. Connect with Laurie -Website: https://lauriewatson.com/ -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LaurieWatson.CouplesTherapy/ -Podcast: Foreplay Radio: https://www.foreplayrst.com/ Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the self-leadership they’re looking for. Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, team, welcome back to the man talk show. I'm Connor Beaton. And joining me today is Dr. Lori Watson. She's a licensed marriage and family therapist. She's got a PhD in sexology, licensed clinical
0:21.9	mental health counselor, and a number of other accreditations. She is very, very accredited.
0:27.7	And so as you can probably tell, we're going to talk a little bit about sex today.
0:32.2	She's also the host of a popular podcast called For Play Radio Couples and Sex Therapy and has done a tremendous
0:39.2	amount of work she's written for The New York Times and has been a contributor for BuzzFeed
0:43.9	and Huffington Post and WebMD and a whole bunch of other platforms. So today we're going to talk
0:50.8	quite a bit about sex. We're going to talk about desire discrepancy between partners. We are going to talk quite a bit about sex. We're going to talk about desire discrepancy between
0:56.2	partners. We are going to talk about how to communicate about sex. We are going to talk about
1:01.9	getting your needs met sexually. And some of the barriers that couples naturally go through,
1:06.7	we are also going to talk about sexless marriages because this is a very common thing that I think a lot of people deal with at some point.
1:14.6	I think the data is that one in four marriages will become sexless.
1:18.1	And it's something like one in four marriages will be sexless within the first two to three years, I believe is what she said in the show.
1:25.6	So this is an important conversation to have. How do we
1:28.9	maintain sexual connection? How do we keep it robust and vibrant? And what are some of the
1:33.8	tools that we can use so that you can keep that healthy, vibrant sex life going in your life?
1:39.3	So whether you're single, whether you're in a relationship, whether you've been married
1:42.0	for a while, This is probably going to
1:44.8	be a great podcast to tune into with your partner. So I would recommend sending this to your partner,
1:51.0	either listening to it on your own or listening to it together and pausing and having some dialogue
1:56.5	and asking some questions because there's some very good content in here for you to have some
2:02.5	dialogue about. So with all of that said, please welcome Dr. Lori Watson. All right, Dr. Watson,
2:10.5	welcome to the Man Talk Show. How are you doing today? Hey, it's good to be with men and man talks.
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