The Desire Gap: Real Solutions for Couples with Mismatched Sex Drives

How To Stop Avoiding Your Own Desires & Figure Out What You Really Want


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Are you secretly scared of your own desires? I see this all the time in my practice – we avoid knowing what we truly want because we're terrified of disappointment. But here's the thing: your desires are there whether you acknowledge them or not, and avoiding them is just quitting in advance (there's no benefit). 

In this episode, I'm walking you through a powerful exercise that will help you uncover what you actually want (not what you think you should want). We're going to dig past those surface-level desires – like wanting the perfect body or your partner to initiate sex more – and get to the real stuff underneath.

I'll share how my own perfectionist fantasies were actually masking deeper desires for self-acceptance, and how recognizing this changed everything. You'll learn to distinguish between desires you can control versus ones that depend on other people, and why that matters so much.

This isn't about repressing your wants – it's about getting smart about them. I'm giving you the exact questions to ask yourself that will help you figure out which desires are worth pursuing and which ones are just symptoms of other issues.

Grab a pen and paper – we're doing this work together.

Get my free guide: 5 Steps to Start Solving Desire Differences
(Without Blame or Shame),
A Practical Starting Point for Individuals and Couples, at https://laurajurgens.com/libido

Find out more about me at https://laurajurgens.com/

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The Desire Gap: Real Solutions for Couples with Mismatched Sex DrivesBy Laura Jurgens, Ph.D.

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