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Episode 169: Learned Helplessness & Sex ft. Sam Tielemens

Bare Marriage

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You Just Hate Sex, but You Just Don't Want to Get Better

Last week, we were looking at the four point plan on how to get over these terrible ruts and the pits that we dig ourselves into. What I want to talk about today is the phenomenon where you could really want to get better, but you could just feel like it just can't happen. And so first of all, it comes to redefining sex, understanding that it's not a commodity. It isn't something that she gives and he takes or that he's entitled to. So we need to see it that way. Then it comes safety, where you feel safe, you feel intimate and from their affection and sex can then bloom. But we have to get these pieces in place

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