Show Notes
Nobody prepares you for the moment after divorce when dating turns into real physical intimacy and your body doesn’t know how to respond. The logistics get plenty of airtime, but the quiet fear of being touched again, not knowing what you like, or worrying you won’t feel anything at all can be just as intense. So we're talking about it in this episode. I dig into why women so often treat sex as something they provide instead of something they get to want. That people-pleasing pattern s...
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