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Pillow Talks

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

Pillow Talks

Vanessa & Xander Marin

Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.82.6K 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.   If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe for your weekly double date full of totally doable sex tips, practical relationship advice, hilarious and honest stories of what really goes on behind closed bedroom doors and so much more. It's the sex education you wish you had!   Check out the show notes at: vmtherapy.com/episode38 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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