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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
We need to have love maps, meaning we need to understand our partner's interests, dreams, hobbies, what keeps them up at night, what they're interested in, what's frustrating them, what they're up against, right?
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
Because if we can have that, it's often not so much about, okay, you're doing the dishes and I'm vacuuming.
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
Although there is research showing that men who vacuum have more sex in their relationships than
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
Sponsored by Dyson.
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
Exactly.
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
But there's never going to be a perfect split.
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
But when there's gratitude and a development of I want to know what your love map is and I want to know what drives you and what you're passionate about, that's going to lead to better intimacy, right?
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
We all, at the end of the day...
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
So, first of all, normalizing that, right?
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
There's going to be a certain level of sexual desire discrepancy in every single relationship.
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
Yeah, that's 100% normal.
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
That's 100% normal.
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
And it's, you know, it starts out as, you know, looking at their sort of different types of discrepancies that exist, right?
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
So if it is something about,
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
you're a morning person and they prefer having sex at night.
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
It's about understanding that not all of the sex that you have has to be the same.
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
And so it's just sitting down and having a conversation with your partner about that.
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
And again, if you're planning intimacy and you know that each of you has different times when you're more likely to feel turned on,
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
You know, that person who is, you know, an early morning person, maybe their partner is never going to want to feel like they're up for sex at 7.30 in the morning.
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7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols
But maybe they go to brunch like your other friend did, and they find that it's a before noon thing, right?