Foreplay Replay - Hope for a Sexless Marriage?

Brave Love Great Sex – Couples Therapy Podcast

Cloud10

Sexuality, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

When someone is committed to fidelity and their partner absolutely does not want sex—is there any hope? Technically, sexless is considered less than 10x a year—but for some people, there is no sex. Sometimes each partner still has desire but they don't know how to talk about it. They may even masturbate on their own but feel it's too complicated to share with their partner. Sometimes the sexual pursuer just gives up and becomes a sexual withdrawer. The danger of a sexless marriage is that the couple may not feel the love of or for their partner and become subject to the temptation of others. They may long for the sexual connection they shared in the beginning; George and Laurie share some ideas about how taking their clothes off again can be safer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah May, and I'm the host of your new favorite show, Help Me, Be Me.
0:06.4	It's a self-help podcast for people who hate self-help.
0:10.3	Help Me Be Me is full of practical tools to help you overcome a variety of emotional challenges,
0:15.9	delivered in a way that's caring but frank.
0:18.4	So if that sounds up your alley, I would invite you to check out,
0:21.6	help me be me on the IHeart app, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks.
0:30.7	This is Dr. Lori. Welcome to ForPlay Replay. This is where we bring back some of our favorite
0:36.1	episodes, your favorite episodes, all to
0:39.1	keep sex hot. Let's dive in. The following content is not suitable for children. Can you imagine
0:44.2	being married and really never having sex? Sounds terrible, Lori. It is terrible because we want our
0:52.6	romantic relationships to be emotionally secure, but we want them to be sexual, too.
0:58.4	Who would want to be in a relationship that's not sexual?
1:01.2	I guess there are people that do, but I'm talking about people where at least one of them wants sex.
1:06.0	That seems terrible.
1:07.2	So let's talk about it and figure this out.
1:09.4	Awesome.
1:12.7	Welcome to Forplay Radio, couples and sex therapy. I'm Lori Watson, your sex therapist.
1:18.5	And I'm George Valley, a couples therapist. And we are passionate about talking about sex
1:23.4	and helping you develop a way to talk to each other. Our mission is to help our audience develop a healthier relationship to sex that integrates
1:32.8	the mind, the heart, and the body.
1:36.7	Lori, I was really shocked to hear the statistics that 20% of couples are considered sexless,
1:47.7	having sex less than one or two times a year.
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