Season 2, Ep 30 - Staying Intimate as Parents
Description
Are you pregnant, postpartum, or a parent --- and are also trying to keep an intimate relationship alive? This episode is for you.
Here we cover one of the topics people ask me about the most - what changes in your intimacy once a little one arrives?
In short, everything.
In this episode, I break the conversation down into 3 phases - pregnancy, early postpartum days, and toddlerhood & beyond - and share the major challenges I hear from couples in each of these phases.
Then I share 5 powerful ways you can keep the spark alive with your partner, even as you navigate the turbulent and awe-inspiring waters of parenthood.
Key Topics:
- The changes and challenges to sex and intimacy in pregnancy [2:18 ]
- The pleasant (sexy!) surprises about intimacy during pregnancy [6:05 ]
- Rediscovering each other after the baby is born [6:47 ]
- Allowing space for your partner’s erotic needs after giving birth [8:47 ]
- Keeping the spark alive as new parents [10:03 ]
- Resentment is a wet blanket for intimacy [11:37 ]
- Parenthood as an initiation to deepening and expanding your intimacy [12:26 ]
- 5 tangible shifts you can make to keep the spark alive [14:52 ]
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