Sexless Relationships, Part 1: Esther Perel

Dear Sugars

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Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

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🗓️ 9 September 2017

⏱️ 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.

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0:00.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:10.2	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:13.7	I'm Steve Olman.
0:14.9	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:15.9	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:17.9	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:26.3	Yeah, some little sweet days will be.
0:33.3	I check my bell by every day.
0:42.3	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:49.3	Hi Steve.
0:50.3	Hi Cheryl.
0:51.3	So we're going to talk about sex today.
0:55.3	Kind of non sex sex.
0:58.3	I'm sad to report.
0:59.3	But this is something really I think a lot of couples especially in long term relationships face.
1:05.3	Certainly in our inbox we have a lot of people writing to us, not saying, you know, oh, one sex struggle or another,
1:12.3	but saying our struggle is that we're not having sex.
1:15.3	Sometimes for years on end, sometimes just barely over the course of many months.
1:22.3	And a lot of people are suffering from this predicament.
1:25.3	They love their partner.
1:27.3	They feel sometimes connected in all kinds of ways, emotional, psychological, great friends, great parents together.
1:34.3	And they're just not connecting in bed.
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