Episodes We Love: Sexless Relationships, Part 1
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:07.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:17.6 | The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Steve Olman. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Cheryl Strait. |
| 0:23.4 | This is Dear Sugar's. |
| 0:27.4 | Oh dear song, won't you please? |
| 0:33.4 | Yes, I'm better sweet days with these. |
| 0:41.4 | I check my bedbugs every day. |
| 0:50.4 | Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way. |
| 0:56.4 | Hi Steve. |
| 0:57.4 | Hi Cheryl. |
| 0:58.4 | So we're going to talk about sex today. |
| 1:01.4 | Sort of. |
| 1:02.4 | Kind of non-sex sex. |
| 1:05.4 | Yes. |
| 1:06.4 | Times out of report. |
| 1:07.4 | But this is something really, I think a lot of couples especially in long term relationships face. |
| 1:12.4 | And certainly in our inbox, we have a lot of people writing to us. |
| 1:16.4 | Not saying, you know, oh, one sex struggle or another, but saying our struggle is that we're not having sex. |
| 1:23.4 | Sometimes for years on end, sometimes just barely over the course of many months. |
| 1:29.4 | And a lot of people are suffering from this predicament. |
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