Wanting to Want It: Understanding Desire — and Creating More Room for Pleasure | 'ask dorothy' | The WISDOM podcast | S5 E174

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Wanting to Want It

Understanding Desire ~ and Creating More Room for Pleasure

The WISDOM Podcast with Dorothy Zennuriye Juno

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What happens when you love your partner...

but don't particularly feel like having sex?

Or when you miss wanting sex — perhaps even more than you miss sex itself?

In this episode of The WISDOM podcast, we explore one of the most tender and often misunderstood experiences within long-term relationships: the changing nature of sexual desire.

Desire doesn't always arrive spontaneously.

Sometimes it emerges through closeness, touch, pleasure, emotional safety and the experience of beginning.

And when two people experience desire differently, an unexpected relational conundrum can appear: one person may seek sexual intimacy as a way of feeling emotionally connected, while the other may need emotional connection before sexual desire has room to emerge.