2025-07-11
21 分钟What do you think about the subject of sex, Julie, and how important it is for a relationship?
How much should we be having sex?
Does it really matter?
Is it a predictor of long-term success in marriage?
Great questions that my clients ask me a lot.
And there's huge variability in sexual preference.
Some couples actually don't want to have sex at all.
all.
Both people don't want to have sex.
They'd rather have kind of a sibling relationship almost.
If they're both content with that, then they can have a very successful relationship.
Some couples really want to have sex a lot, you know, all the time.
And it's a really important component of the relationship and everything in between.
When you run into trouble, is the following, and I've seen this so many times.
The men who, I guess I would say, are hyper-masculine,
they think that cuddling is too infantile, so they don't want to cuddle.
And the only way they can accept physical contact, which they desperately need, is through sex.
Period.
Penetrative sex.
Penetrative sex.