A year and a half can be a very, very long time for certain people to go without sex and that's worth paying a lot of attention to you, obviously if that's the case for you.

But a year and a half, even two, three years, hopefully it doesn't go to that, but that amount of time in the context of a very, very, very long relationship is quite small.

And so you've got to keep that timeline in mind if this is somebody that you're going to stick it out with.

So it sucks right now, but it doesn't have to be forever.

Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers.

This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general and some of those could be sensitive for you.

I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content but also respect and recognize your limitations.

So please use your best judgment.

I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel

free to feel it out, check out the the episode and just see what happens if you

need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also

need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not

your therapist this is not intended to be direct medical

advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All right.

Hello friends of all varieties.

This is the Hardcore Health Help Podcast episode 170. I'm your

host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people

just like you and today I have a question and answer episode for you so some of you guys have been writing me some really

really great questions you just send them into Duff the site

at gmail dot com or use the contact page on my website

and I will consider every single question that's

sent to me I obviously won't be able to get to all of them but I do read all of

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