Episode 151: How To Get Your Partner To Open Up About Sex (Even If They’re Resistant)

Pillow Talks

Vanessa & Xander Marin

Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

If you’re a Pillow Talks listener, you’re probably on board with the idea of talking about sex openly. But what do you do if your partner is a lot more hesitant?

In this episode, we’re going over why your partner might be feeling resistant, and how you can encourage them to open up. You’ll learn our secret to intimacy-building conversation, plus tons of creative (and even sneaky) ways to get your partner to talk about sex.

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0:00.0	Our secret sauce is non-go-oriented sexual communication.
0:06.5	And G-O-S-C.
0:08.5	We need to come up with a sexier name for that.
0:11.6	No ghost. No ghost. No ghost.
0:13.6	No ghost. Hello and
0:25.0	I'm just a sex therapist with over 20 years of experience and I'm just a regular dude
0:30.0	We share the ups and downs in our relationship while giving you
0:34.0	step-by-step techniques for improving yours. Make sure you subscribe for your weekly
0:38.6	double date full of totally doable sex tips, practical relationship advice, hilarious and honest stories of what
0:45.4	really goes on behind closed bedroom doors and so much more. It's the sex
0:50.2	education you wish you'd had.
0:53.0	Thanks to Cozy Earth for continuing to support Pillow Talks.
0:57.0	Give the gift of a good night's rest with Cozy Earth.
1:00.0	Get up to 35% off site wide when you use code pillow talks at cozyearth.com.
1:06.4	Today's episode is about one of our all-time favorite topics,
1:11.4	sexual communication. How to talk about sex as we talk about it on
1:16.8	our podcast which is about talking to you about talking about sex about the topic of
1:22.4	this episode.
1:23.7	So if you've been following us for any length of time,
1:27.4	it's no surprise to you that we talk a lot about communication.
1:30.8	But you may not know our story around this, which is that if we go back to like 2008, 2009, we actually wound up in couples therapy because we had never talked openly about
1:45.6	our sex life and we were real big and scary. We were really struggling you know and
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