How does your relationship affect desire and libido?

How do you rekindle connection and desire after breaking up and then reuniting?

How do you rebuild trust when you get back together?

In this episode, we respond to a listener question: her partner left her and then returned, and now she's dealing with low libido and painful sex. We discuss the complexities of rekindling desire, reigniting the flame and rebuilding trust.

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Q&A Quickie: Sexual Desire & Painful Sex

Episode 324

[00:00:00] You're listening to the Sex with Dr. Jess podcast, sex and Relationship Advice you can use tonight.

[00:00:15] Jess O'Reilly: Hey, hey, we've got a quickie episode for you, babe. How are you doing today?

[00:00:19] Brandon Ware: I'm awesome. Thank you. How are you?

[00:00:21] Jess O'Reilly: I'm good. I'm good. We are in the heat of summer. We're in Barcelona, our now second home.

[00:00:27] Brandon Ware: It's hot and it's hot.

[00:00:28] Jess O'Reilly: I guess it's our first home now, but the streets are super packed with tourists. Of course. It's a really young city. Like, I definitely am on the, I feel like I'm on the older side here. I don't know when that happened. You wake up one day and then you're old.

[00:00:43] Brandon Ware: Yeah. I mean, yes. Welcome to my world.

[00:00:46] Jess O'Reilly: Young people here for a ton of music festivals, right?

[00:00:48] Jess O'Reilly: I feel like there's just a music festival every weekend here, and so I stumble trying, trying to be one of the cool kids. I never go to the music festival, so no. I'm like, I'm in bed before they start dinner here in Barcelona. They eat dinner at 11 o'clock at night.

[00:01:01] Brandon Ware: Yeah, you gotta gotta find that early.

[00:01:03] Brandon Ware: It's kinda like being in Florida.

[00:01:05] Jess O'Reilly: I need the senior special. Absolutely. Well, actually it's weird. It's easy to adjust to the lifestyle here, I've found, because the sun goes down at like 10 o'clock at night.

[00:01:13] Brandon Ware: Yeah. I feel ridiculous when I'm wrapping up my day getting ready for bed and I can hear kids playing inside.

[00:01:19] Jess O'Reilly: But it's also, I find we end up going to dinner later because it's so bright out, right? Like seven and eight o'clock at night. Everything's. Alive, sort of like the Sanka set, like the um, after work thing back, back in Toronto and in North America. But I was thinking about music festivals because you see, um, every weekend there seems to be a change of attire on the streets.

[00:01:40] Jess O'Reilly: Cuz I guess different festivals attract different demographics and there tends to be a look, right? Like when you think about Coachella, there's a look, I know people dress differently, but there's some thematic elements and love honey with whom I'm good friends. They did a, a survey. To find out how many people are actually having sex.

[00:01:57] Jess O'Reilly: At these music festivals. Have you, have you had sex at a concert?

[00:01:59] Brandon Ware: [00:02:00] No, I have not had sex. I,