Intimacy in Midlife

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this NEW episode, Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife joins Jane Copier of the Happy in the Middle podcast to speak directly to women in midlife who feel disconnected from desire or unsure of how to bring themselves back into their marriages. She explains why this stage—though often uncomfortable—is full of possibility: a chance to stop living on autopilot, get honest about what you want in your life, and create more peace and connection in your relationship. If this episode hits home, you'd love The Art of Desire course for women: https://www.finlayson-fife.com/courses/course/the-art-of-desire Get the Book: https://amzn.to/48HnuUC

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0:00.0	My work is to unjustify people, to help them see, yes, those things hurt.
0:05.0	Yes, your spouse did that and that was not good.
0:08.0	But who are you in this?
0:10.1	How have you participated in the marriage to be what it is?
0:13.6	How are you going to take deeper responsibility for your life, even if in some cases it means leaving this marriage?
0:19.9	But to help people get more deeply rooted
0:22.6	into their own conscience, their own integrity, and their own agency to live in a way that they
0:29.3	can back up internally.
0:45.4	Welcome to Conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships,
0:50.9	sexuality, spirituality, and more, all featuring Dr. Finlayson Fife.
1:00.1	Hi, everyone. Dr. Jennifer here. So often when we confront conflict, pain, and struggle in our marriages, we feel like something is going wrong. And yet in my work as a marriage therapist
1:05.6	and coach, I understand these as moments of collision that pressure our growth if we will let them.
1:12.6	My new book that we might have joy looks at the ways that we have often misunderstood
1:17.6	our theology and created a more problematic relationship to our sexuality and to marital intimacy.
1:26.1	And this book is my attempt to help Latter-day Saints understand the richness of our theology,
1:31.4	how we can understand the pressures and struggles of marriage to be an invitation into our growth,
1:38.3	to become more capable of intimacy and more capable of love.
1:42.4	So if you click on the link in the show notes, you can find a purchase
1:45.8	link for this new book that we might have joy. Thanks, everyone. Welcome, friends. You are in for a
1:51.6	real treat today. I have a truly special guest for you. Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife is here with me
1:57.4	to talk about sexuality in midlife and that intimate relationship between
2:03.0	husband and wife and how we make it better. But first, let me tell you a little bit about
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