Coping With Lack of Desire in a Mixed-Orientation Marriage

Oct 28, 2021

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Feeling rejected by your spouse in any realm can be disheartening, but when the rejection is sexual, it can be an exceptionally demoralizing experiencing.

Sexual rejection is particularly potent because during arousal states the brain is highly plastic. So any emotion, good or bad, holds extra sway when it is experienced during an aroused state.

In this episode of Sex Therapy 101, Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins Cami Hurst to answer a listener's question about how to move forward and cultivate her sexuality after years of feeling undesired and fundamentally rejected by her spouse during their 21-year mixed-orientation marriage.

This powerful episode is helpful to those who:

* Have felt undesired in their marriages
* Have been in a mixed-orientation marriage
* Feel insufficient
* Want to develop a stronger self-reference

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