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Pillow Talks

Episode 38: You Want Connection, Your Partner Wants Sex. Who Comes First?

Pillow Talks

Vanessa & Xander Marin

Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

There are two types of people: those who need to feel connected before having sex, and those that need to have sex in order to feel connected. In a cruel twist of fate, relationships typically have one of each type of person. This can lead to a stand-off situation that often manifests in long dry spells or straight up bad sex.

In this episode, we give our surprising (and perhaps controversial) answer to what comes first — emotional or physical connection, and talk about how to end the ‘stand-off’ once and for all.

Check out the show notes at: vmtherapy.com/episode38

Transcript

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0:00.0

My husband barely talks to me all day and then gets into bed and expects me to go 0-60 immediately.

0:13.3

Hello and welcome to the Pillotox podcast. We're your host, Vanessa.

0:18.0

And Zander Marin.

0:19.3

I'm a sex therapist with over 20 years of experience.

0:22.3

And I'm just a regular dude. We share the ups and downs in our relationship while giving

0:26.6

you step-by-step techniques for improving yours.

0:29.6

Make sure you subscribe for your weekly double date full of totally doable sex tips,

0:34.2

practical relationship advice, hilarious and honest stories of what really goes on

0:39.3

behind closed bedroom doors and so much more. It's the sex education you wish you'd had.

0:46.8

So our whole episode today is about what comes first? Physical intimacy or emotional intimacy,

0:53.5

but I think I'm going to just blow up the whole episode and say, wow.

0:57.5

Actually, what needs to come first is dance intimacy.

1:00.8

Oh.

1:02.6

Our pre-recording ritual of Zander dancing really took a turn today. There was a new move that was

1:09.2

added. Oh, it's kind of an aerial butt shake. It's like a butt rotation.

1:15.6

A jump in the air with a hip thrust. There was even a hackysack kick action going on.

1:22.0

You actually did this for the first time last night. You picked up a dog toy with your feet

1:26.1

and threw it into the air. Like, do people still do hackysack?

1:29.6

Do people, are people going to know what I'm talking about or am I dating myself?

1:32.5

It's also, it's also a soccer move.

1:41.7

Lame in mind that I'm thinking of it as a hackysack thing rather than a soccer thing.

1:46.0

I don't know. It says a lot. Oh, it's pretty bad. But anyway, I really enjoy it. It's a pretty great move.

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