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🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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A sexless relationship is often a symptom of deeper dysfunction. The Sugars, along with couples therapist Esther Perel, advise a letter writer whose loving partner is erotically absent. This episode was originally released on September 9th, 2017.
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1:05.5 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. The sugars are here, speaking |
1:11.6 | straight into your ears. I'm Steve Alman. I'm Cheryl Strait. This is Dear Sugars. |
1:17.2 | Oh dear song, won't you please? Yeah, some little sweet days with me. I check my bed |
1:36.1 | every day. Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way. |
1:49.9 | Hi Steve. Hi Cheryl. So we're going to talk about sex today. |
1:53.4 | Hmm, sort of. Kind of non-sex sex. Yes. I'm sad to report. But this is something really |
2:00.9 | I think a lot of couples especially in long term relationships face and certainly in our inbox. |
2:06.4 | We have a lot of people writing to us, not saying, you know, oh, one sex struggle or another, |
2:12.1 | but saying our struggle is that we're not having sex. Sometimes for years on end, sometimes |
2:18.7 | just, you know, barely over the course of many months. And a lot of people are suffering |
2:24.2 | from this predicament. They love their partner. They feel sometimes connected in all kinds |
2:30.3 | of ways, emotional, psychological, great friends, great parents together. Right. And they're |
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