Swoon: Love Lessons with Julie and Gina

On this episode of Swoon, Julie and Gina share tips and tools for asking for what you want sexually. They give examples of what often goes wrong and then model different ways to ask for what you want so that all of your fantasies come true.

Julie and Gina continue their miniseries about how to have tricky conversations. This week they explore conversations about wanting to slow down your relationship and how to talk about exes and past relationships.

Shame is one of the greatest hurdles to connection and belonging in human relationships. It's a huge problem in human intimacy, sexual expression, and relationship repair. Tune in this week while Gina and Julie break down the barriers to connection.

How much time, energy, and money do you spend on couples work before giving up?

How to know when fighting to fix a marriage/relationship turns desperate & destructive?

Is divorce inevitable for some marriages or are all relationships salvageable?

How do you handle pursuer/avoider (or distance/pursuer) dynamic in relationships?

What's the difference between asking for reassurance from a partner vs. asking for consent?

Desire is a critical part of being intimately connected in relationships. Julie and Gina discuss how normal desire concerns are with lots of different people, how to deal with a lack of desire, why desire comes so much more easily early in relationships and three different approaches to desire issues in relationships.