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Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever. And iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and Lauren Zema, I am hot told on

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Speaker 1: turning my mic downs.

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Speaker 2: Yeast are hot?

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Speaker 1: Is that how we start this?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 1: Okay, take a compliment.

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Speaker 3: Man, He meant hot like the audio was high, which

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Speaker 3: is an industry term.

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Speaker 2: He needed to adjust his volume.

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Speaker 1: So with that, Chris Harrison, Laurn Zema, We're coming to

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Speaker 1: you from the home office in Austin, Texas. LZ. What

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Speaker 1: are we talking about today?

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Speaker 3: I wanted to get into something that has been popping

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Speaker 3: up all over my screens as a Real Housewives watcher

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Speaker 3: with you, which you kind of also are. Now I've

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Speaker 3: gotten you into Salt Lake City in New York.

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Speaker 1: Not kind of definitely No, I'm in And.

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Speaker 3: This is coming up on both franchises where they often

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Speaker 3: get into couples chatter how long is too long to

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Speaker 3: not have sex with your partner?

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Speaker 1: What has prompted this?

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Speaker 3: On Real Housewives of New York it has been a

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Speaker 3: multi episode arc. There's a couple, Pavit and Jessel. Povit

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Speaker 3: the husband, Jessel the wife. They have not had sex. Now,

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Speaker 3: she did have twin babies, but they've not had sex

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Speaker 3: since she had her twin babies, and maybe even for

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Speaker 3: telling all the women her and her husband haven't had

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Speaker 3: sex in like a year and a half to two years.

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Speaker 3: Let's let that sink in a year and a half

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Speaker 3: or maybe even two years in a marriage, Okay, no sex.

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Speaker 3: And she said nothing else really either, like no oral moments.

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Speaker 1: Nothing playing around. So I was going to immediately say,

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Speaker 1: you have to break this down into two categories. There

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Speaker 1: is how long has it been since you've had sex?

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Speaker 1: Have you just had children? Have you not had children?

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Speaker 1: Because to me, first of all, those are very different

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Speaker 1: answers for very different reasons. Is there on the show

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Speaker 1: have they talked about who or why they're not having sex?

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Speaker 3: She they definitely say the kids were like kind of

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Speaker 3: obviously what spurred this, Like she gave birth and obviously

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Speaker 3: physically you can't for a minute, and it seems like

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Speaker 3: And she says now like they just aren't into it,

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Speaker 3: they're just not She says she doesn't feel comfortable and

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Speaker 3: all of her friends are kind of telling her, like,

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Speaker 3: you just got to do it.

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Speaker 2: You just need to like break the seal.

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Speaker 1: It's I find this very interesting because I obviously I've

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Speaker 1: had kids, I've talked to many parents, and obviously the

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Speaker 1: about this kind of stuff. Once people have had kids.

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Speaker 1: There's there's a couple of different reasons that spurs this.

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Speaker 1: On number one, like you said, physically, there's reasons that

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Speaker 1: medically you're just not having sex right at the beginning.

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Speaker 1: Then after that there's an anxiety, sometimes from the woman,

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Speaker 1: sometimes from the man. Things have changed, things have shifted,

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Speaker 1: things are mentally and emotionally different. So this is something

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Speaker 3: I've also heard from friends of mine that their husbands

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Speaker 3: were too afraid to have sex with them while they

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Speaker 2: To hurt the baby.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure doctors tell you that's not a real concern.

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Speaker 1: So, and in fact, the doctors will say that is

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Speaker 1: if you are ready to give birth, if you're a

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Speaker 3: To a way. And I remember this episode of Friends,

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Speaker 1: A lot of times that will spur.

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Speaker 3: If you are having a medical issue, your partner should

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Speaker 3: seem to me in this case it's gotten away from them. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I and look, we don't always talk about our sex life,

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Speaker 1: Well, I think you just you said something really early

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Speaker 1: It got away from them. It's gotten away from them,

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Speaker 1: and I think, and I don't know these people, but

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Speaker 1: at some point somebody needs to stop and start communicating.

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Speaker 1: Somebody needs to have that speech or that comment that

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Speaker 1: you just had. Babe, this has gotten away from us.

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Speaker 1: I miss that intimacy. We need to connect again and

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Speaker 1: like you said, you're going to be you're both going

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Speaker 1: to be overthinking it now because it's been so long,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying, you know, this is the best circumstance

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Speaker 1: would say the woman, you've got to be there for her,

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Speaker 1: to Two years is way too long.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's what I was going to ask you, is

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Speaker 2: You know what, when's the line? What's the thirst?

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Speaker 1: Well again again? When when the woman feels fully healthy

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Speaker 1: So we're trying to paint with a very broad brush.

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Speaker 1: you get to that year mark. Okay, is that it? No? No,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying when you get to that year mark,

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Speaker 2: No, I mean, I think that's longer than I would

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Speaker 1: Would too, But that's where you really started got you

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Speaker 2: I think you have to have it before that.

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Speaker 3: When would everybody start to be like, something's going on here,

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Speaker 3: to ask them for advice. When would you start saying

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Speaker 3: when you'd go.

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Speaker 2: I'm concerned.

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Speaker 1: So here's what I find interesting that if we were

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Speaker 1: even playfully just hey, when you know, when can we

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Speaker 1: okay if I just do this or do this? And

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Speaker 1: so the sexuality and the romance, I would have already

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Speaker 2: That's what is a little I agree.

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Speaker 3: And I had a friend who not long ago hadn't

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Speaker 3: because how have you not talked about it? At least

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Speaker 2: Now we are giving.

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Speaker 3: The context here of being new parents for this couple

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Speaker 3: from this show. What if it's just like my friend, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: what if it's just sex hasn't happened? Then, as a

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's unreasonable, that's not crazy. And again,

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Speaker 1: you're talking about a couple that's already been intimate, You've

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Speaker 1: because this is something couples go through, and I think

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Speaker 3: And I think the longer people are together, the harder

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Speaker 3: and the less you prioritize that communication.

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Speaker 1: Uork travel things, and then all of a sudden you

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Speaker 3: Okay for your I'm going back to this, huh. I'm

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Speaker 3: just curious. I'm picking your brain. Yeah, four guys. Generally,

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Speaker 3: what do you think that that number would be like

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Speaker 3: if you and your guy friends are talking about it.

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Speaker 2: Would it be less it'd be like a week?

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Speaker 1: No, I think weeks. You know again, all my friends

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Speaker 1: they just I get it when they're traveling and driving

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Speaker 2: On different like drove baseball practice.

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Speaker 1: I get that a week can get away from you quickly.

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Speaker 1: When you have kids, and when you're any and let's

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Speaker 1: just take kids away. When you're just married and you're

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Speaker 1: working and you're just exhausted. I get that, But when

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Speaker 1: I think there's there's a conversation that needs to be had,

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Speaker 1: like it's not healthy, you need to connect more.

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I feel like I'm we we should bring

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I say, I mean start out with friends as friends,

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Speaker 1: No, it was you. No, I would say that we

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Speaker 1: We've always we've always been able to talk no matter what,

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Speaker 3: Well. If you all have an arrangement, an arrangement that

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Speaker 2: You will remain.

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Speaker 3: Anonymous if you ask to do so, we promise, and

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Speaker 3: also please dms and let us know what you think

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Speaker 3: I might be thinking about this wrong. I might get

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