In this episode, Molly and Cristen discuss why breaking up with romantic partners is universally painful -- and offer some consolation to sufferers -- as they explore the brain chemistry of breakups.
Episode 6 is finally here! Ā We talk about what jealousy actually is, how jealousy is a second-order emotion, and how you can reverse engineer your jealousy to discover more about your own needs...Show More
Sara and Jay are BACK and this time we're talking about boundaries, rules, agreements, and how you can figure out what your boundaries are and what you need to feel safe. Useful links:Ā https://www.mo...Show More
The term "ghosting" may be relatively new, but the concept -- someone suddenly and inexplicably disappearing from your life -- is not. In the past, a total halt to communication with a friend might le...Show More
The Sugars get a letter from a young woman who has fallen head over heels in love. She and her boyfriend only met a month ago, but are already in deep. Everything seems perfect, and yet the letter wri...Show More
Sara and Jay discuss different types of LTRs and LDRs, including thoughts on how you can keep connecting over distance and time with the same person or people, how to ask for what you need, and ways y...Show More
Hey friends!Ā Sara and Jay discuss desire, exploration, and how you can identify what you want, learn more about sexual activities you may want to try, and how you could pursue those desires alone or w...Show More
This week on Queer Sex Ed, we talk about ending relationships in an ethical and direct way. Topics discussed include why relationships end, strategies for ending relationships, and thoughts on how to ...Show More
Heās in a new relationship and wants it to be exclusive, but he canāt get a read on his partner's feelings. Itās hard for him to have an open honest conversation about his needs without feeling weak, ...Show More
Shortly after the birth of her first child, a letter-writer who calls herself āTantrum Daughterā lost her mother to suicide. Now, with a second child on the way, Tantrum Daughter is overcome with pain...Show More
Itās healthy to cultivate friendships outside of your romantic relationships. But sometimes, they can be the source of jealousy and resentment. So when is jealousy actually justified? In this rapid-fi...Show More
Our loved ones are the people who are supposed to understand us. But what if they just...can't? Where do we turn then, and how do we fight the feelings of resentment that this lack of understanding ca...Show More
Orgies. Sex in public. Incest. These are the things that some of us think about in the dark. Taboo fantasies can be exciting, but they can also be the source of our deepest shame. In this two-part ser...Show More
When Meher Ahmad first saw the movie āBend It Like Beckhamā as a young girl, she was transfixed. Watching the main character, an Indian woman who looked like her, kiss her white soccer coach, she saw ...Show More
What are the boundaries of an open marriage? What happens to them when your wifeās boyfriend has an accident that puts him in a coma? And what do you tell the kids? Today, weāre revisiting Wayne Scot...Show More
Mansoor Adayfi was only 19 when he arrived at the prison camp at the GuantaĢnamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Growing up in a tiny village in the mountains of Yemen, āI didnāt know much about the world,ā h...Show More
Lou and Elizabeth discussed Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern. They talked about their own poly lives and the ways Polysecure helped them in their relationships...Show More
āā#jessicafernā #polysecureā #authorloveā #nonmonogamyā #ethicalnonmonogamyā #polyamory Greg and Leanne are completely jazzed to have had the opportunity to meet with the author of "Polysecure: Attach...Show More
Jessica Fern is a psychotherapist, author, public speaker and trauma and relationship expert. She has worked with individuals, couples and people in multiple-partner relationships to overcome reactive...Show More
If youāre lucky enough to have fallen in love at some point in your life, youāveĀ probably also had your heart broken. The experience can be excruciating, protracted, disorienting ā¦ but can it cause ...Show More
Sarah speaks with Jessica Fern, psychotherapist and author of Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consenual Nonmonogamy, about...yup, you guessed it - attachment, trauma, and nonmonogamy. Jessica shar...Show More
Horny after a partner dies? NORMAL.Ā Body and emotional numbness? NORMAL.Ā Completely lost or somewhere in between? NORMAL.Ā THE advocate for ageless sexuality Joan Price, shares insights from her boo...Show More
Sarah and her friend, end-of-life doula Lucy, discuss - yep, you guessed it: grief, death, and sex. In this episode, Lucy shares about what exactly an end-of-life doula is and all the (some wrong) way...Show More
Sarah speaks with Zach, a self-proclaimed nerd, sex geek, and consent educator. In this extra long episode, Zach and Sarah discuss A LOT -Zach's 10+ years experience with polyamory, his five pillars o...Show More
Friendship breakups are painful, but they can also be healthy. On this week's solo episode, Eileen recounts her most traumatic friend breakups, from getting blackmailed by a former roommate to catchin...Show More
Our guest today is trailblazing a unique approach towards navigating relationships. Jessica Fern is the author of The book takes its readers into an exploration of the relationship between attachment...Show More
Why is it that we stumble when we discuss sexuality? It should be a joyous topic rather than one fraught with shame, confusion, and invisibility. Even as we get more shows and movies attempting to tac...Show More
The Sugars have been thinking about what it means to say goodbye and let go. In this first episode of their two-part series on moving on, the Sugars and Claire Bidwell Smith answer two letters from pe...Show More
In this second part of our series on moving on, the Sugars discuss how we can release ourselves from our past mistakes. Dr. Harriet Lerner drops in to answer a letter from a woman who calls herself a ...Show More
Reema Zaman, our guest in this weekās episode, was in an emotionally abusive marriage. Although her husbandās abuses never left any physical mark, it took her years to repair the damage he inflicted u...Show More
Sean Illing talks with Carrie Jenkins about her new book Sad Love, and her call to rethink the shape and boundaries of romantic love. In this far-ranging discussion about the meaning of romantic love,...Show More
In our last episode, we look at how estrangement changes shape over the course of a life: how it can bend or harden, and how it affects new relationships, old memories, and the idea of family.Ā Did yo...Show More
Is love something that happens magically between two people ā or is it something that needs to be nurtured? Does it come from within us, or is it something weāre given? My guest today is here to help ...Show More
The new year is a time to be reflective and make changes - maybe to yourself or how you relate to others. With resolutions in mind, we bring you this NPR Life Kit episode exploring what attachment sty...Show More
Michael Slepian researches the psychology of secrets. But what he didn't know ā until about a decade ago ā was that his family had a major secret they were keeping from him. One they planned never t...Show More
Polyamory used to be reserved for the kinky, the queer, and the communist witches of this world. (Go with us, we have proof). But in the last few years, the map has been radically redrawn. Ethical n...Show More
Search āHow long does it take to get over a break up?ā and youāll find answers ranging from three weeks to three-and-a-half years. Despite heartbreak being one of the most universal human experiences,...Show More
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A beautiful story about open relationships & the situations/dynamics to navigate when difficult life events arise