Navigating “The Sex Talk Demons,” With Leah Carey
Marriage and Martinis
Adam Silverstein
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
** This episode mentions and has some discussion of sexual trauma. Please take care while listening.
Recently, Danielle asked her good friend, sex and intimacy coach, Leah Carey, to listen to her and Adam's wildly popular episode, “Awakening The Sex Talk Demons.” Danielle wanted to know why this conversation with Adam concerning intimacy had been so explosive and chaotic before it was able to be productive. Had they done it wrong? Is it actually possible to tell your partner you need more, sexually, and have it be a smooth, gentle discussion?
Leah breaks down what we need to remember during these very tough conversations: we’ve been conditioned differently from the time we’re very young, and are often simply adhering to the roles we’ve been instructed to fulfill. She and Danielle discuss that infamous first Marriage and Martinis episode that Leah was on, why we can’t always trust our bodies’ physical responses during intimacy, games that can be played in lieu of telling our partner, “we’re not satisfied” as means to get a similar message across, and so much more.
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Listen to the conversation that inspired this episode, Awakening The Sex Talk Demons. Want more information on how to navigate your own hard conversations about intimacy? Read Danielle's blog post here.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. And then once you start realizing that you were not experiencing at all what pleasure could be the irony is that when the woman feels so fulfilled they want to have it all the time |
| 0:40.7 | Yes to have the conversation of I don't like the thing that you're doing |
| 0:45.5 | because that's never going to go well. |
| 0:51.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Marriage and Martini's. This is Danielle. |
| 0:55.0 | Over the course of the five years that Adam and I, five plus years, Adam and I have been doing the podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | I have spoken to hundreds of experts in all different fields it's one of the |
| 1:09.6 | greatest gifts of being a podcaster and everything that we do. |
| 1:17.5 | And to this day, Leah Carey is by far, |
| 1:22.1 | one of my favorite guests and she's been on I don't know maybe five or six times by now because |
| 1:30.4 | I truly feel like there are only a few people in life whom I could say anything to directly about intimacy or just secrets or anything and they would make me feel like I was in the |
| 1:52.3 | safest, most comfortable spot to be in, and I could truly |
| 1:58.2 | say whatever and not be judged. |
| 2:01.4 | I don't think there are a lot of people in the world who I actually |
| 2:04.7 | believe would authentically be so embracing and loving no matter what you told them. |
| 2:14.0 | And that's how I feel with Leah and that's why I've been |
| 2:17.0 | so passionate about having her so many times on the podcast |
| 2:22.0 | because she does allow Adam and me to reveal the most authentic |
| 2:28.2 | raw side of ourselves and I know you're probably thinking like well you guys kind of don't have trouble |
| 2:32.2 | doing that anyway |
| 2:33.0 | but it's different with Leah because she can reflect on our conversations as |
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