338: Details of Sex
Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy
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The Trigger in Sexual Relationships
A trigger is some kind of cue that hits a raw spot, something within a person. We're particularly thinking right now of the trigger as a negative thing. So I remember a guy who, he was going down on his wife, and he looked up and she had this grimace on her face. And so he stopped, got out of bed, was angry. They never talked about it until they came to therapy. He just didn't know what it meant. The two of them were blocked from each other from this important act. At least in this episode, that's how we're thinking about it.
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