DeWone Bennett - Are You In A Sexless Marriage? #1512
Therapy Thursday
Let’s Talk About Sex Baby! Are you in a sexless marriage? DeWone Bennett is here to help. DeWone is here with One Life Radio for the full hour to therapize us, so stick around!
DeWone Bennett
DeWone Bennett is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 11 years of counseling experience from Vallejo California. DeWone has two masters degrees, one in counseling and another in psychology. He is currently in the process of finishing up his Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He is the owner of Healthy Life Interventions counseling in Oklahoma City as well as his private practice D. Bennett Counseling in Dallas.
Are You In A Sexless Marriage?
31 percent of couples have sex several times a week; 28 percent of couples have sex a couple of times a month; and 8 percent of couples have sex once a month. 20 percent of people are in a sexless marriage. If you're happy with the frequency of sex (or not frequency) in your marriage, then you're having the right amount of sex for you. If you're not, you can work on the problem through better communication, more experimentation in the bedroom, and/or couples or sex therapy. In actuality, couples get married and having less sex than before the tied the knot. A starting sign that you are in a sexless marriage are there's hesitancy and/or avoidance of initiating physical touch, either because of the potential rejection or the possibility that it'll lead to unwanted sex. Other forms of intimacy (touching, love languages, etc.) are also lacking in your relationship. You feel disconnected from your partner.
Psychology Today estimates that roughly 15 to 20 percent of American marriages are sexless, not counting the over 50 percent of unions that end in divorce. Most married couples experience the occasional dry spell. This can even happen within a perfectly healthy relationship in accordance with the ordinary stresses, trials, and tribulations of life. Sometimes, however, an ordinary dry spell goes on long enough to become a full-blown sexless marriage, and that is a cause for greater concern. If an intimate relationship is something that’s important to you and you aren’t getting those needs met by your spouse, you may be wondering if it’s time to consider divorce. Undeniably, divorce is a serious decision, and you do not want to go into it blindly. Try counseling, it works.
There are several common cause for a sexless marriage, and I bet you could guess it, the first one is stress. Stress from outside forces like work and school can come home with you and cause your partner to not want to have sex. Bernadette and DeWone talk about the french kiss and how kissing is absent from sex as an act. Another common cause is unresolved conflict, and bottom line, sex is a difficult topic and sex is a difficult debate and everyone has the right to say NO to sex or sexual acts.
It gets a little weird and kinky, so keep on listen to hear all of the banter between Bernadette, DeWone, and Junior.
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