This is the Authentic Sex Podcast, real-life conversations about sex, pleasure and relationships.

I'm your host, Juliet Allen.

Welcome to this episode of the Authentic Sex Podcast.

My name is Juliette. I am a sexologist, a sex and relationship

coach and a tantra practitioner. And today I'm here to talk to you about vulnerability and love

in a relationship. I'm talking about this topic because it's something that I've been exploring

extensively for what feels like many, many years.

I feel like we're all exploring this in life and in love and in relationships.

And it's a topic that is hard for a lot of us, you know, to be vulnerable.

And love is painful often.

It's like this beautiful, beautiful experience, but it can also lead to heartbreak.

And so I feel inspired to talk about it because right now it's something that I'm exploring really deeply within myself and within my own relationship

that I hold very close to my heart.

So what is vulnerability?

I guess for me, vulnerability is really opening to others in my life, not just in romantic relationships,

but to everybody. It's like what I mean by opening is authentically expressing from my heart what's going on for me.

And that may be as simple as sharing that today I'm feeling a little sad and fragile and I'd like to make a request that I have time to myself today

to nurture myself. You know, that could be vulnerable for somebody to ask for that.

Vulnerability is saying from your heart how much you love somebody for the first time.

Vulnerability is asking for what you need in the face of rejection. You know, in that fear of

will I get rejected for asking for what I want?

That's vulnerability.

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