325: Getting Pursuer Needs Met
Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy
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Is Your Partner Befriending Mistrust?
Laurie: I see this a lot with partners, particularly female partners who maybe have been very rejecting sexually. They will say to their partner, you know what? You don't ever come on to me and show that because they've backed up. The male has backed up and then he'll try. And she's like, that is such a line. She doesn't trust it. So the withdrawing partner says, why should I do this? It triggers that yellow brain. Right. When you give somebody permission for mistrust, it pulls the brain green. This is going to happen. Don't get surprised."
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