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Why Your Spouse Never Initiates Sex | Shaunti Feldhahn

Name: Why Your Spouse Never Initiates Sex | Shaunti Feldhahn
Uploaded: 2023-04-06T16:00:26+00:00
Duration: 50 s
Channel: Dave Willis
Description: Short excerpt from a YouTube video ("Why Your Spouse Never Initiates Sex | Shaunti Feldhahn") in which a speaker explains the concept of "receptive…

6 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video ("Why Your Spouse Never Initiates Sex | Shaunti Feldhahn") in which a speaker explains the concept of "receptive desire": the idea that one partner may choose to initiate sexual engagement and then feel desire as arousal follows. The speaker says this insight reframed perceptions (reducing feelings of being "broken") and notes patterns vary (not strictly gendered); they describe the idea as life-changing for acquaintances.

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The person with receptive desire often just, you know, chooses to get engaged sexually. Right. Like, they just choose to start, you know, interacting with their spouse in that way, and then they start feeling aroused. And as long as that's positive, you know, they do that positively. Then they start feeling the desire that maybe their spouse felt from the very beginning. Oh, my gosh. Like, that makes so much more sense of stuff. Yes. And you stop feeling broken. Yeah. And you stop feeling that your spouse is broken. It's just, you know, it just it is not always, you know, the man or the woman who's initiating receptive. There's, you know, other patterns. But let me tell you, for me, with my friends, that I was starting out with this. It was life changing. Yeah.