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392: How to ask for what you need in a way that increases connection

Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy

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How to Ask for What You Want in a Relationship That Increases Connection

Everybody needs to learn this pre-marriage or any at any point in the relationship right where they can ask for what they need in a way that increases connection, increases sexual desire. So often we focus on the behavior request that lands as a criticism. And we don't realize that and we're going to just try to change that into a direct expression of want. We talk about how do you ask for what you want in ways that the other person he is as an invitation to join you to meet you because it's asking for connection. They're doing something wrong. It more likely elicits that yellow brain and defensiveness.

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