Why do couples experiences low libido and low sex drive issues and how can marriage counseling in Florida help?
Do you have a high libido, but your partner has a low libido? Or, is it the other way around? When you and your romantic partner have different interests in the frequency of sex, it can be difficult to feel satisfied in your relationship. Sexual frustration, resentment, confusion, helplessness, conflict, loss, sadness, guilt, and insecurity can all arise from mismatched libidos. You may have low libido and low sex drive issues due to a variety of reasons. Intimacy therapy and marriage counseling at Wisdom Within is a positive experience that helps you talk about various aspects contributing to a low sex drive. You can talk about building emotional and physical intimacy in counseling. Also, you and your romantic partner may be dealing with relationship challenges and conflicts related to low libido and diminished sex drive that counseling can help with.
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If you have a higher sex drive, you may feel sexually self-conscious, insecure, frustrated and wonder why your partner doesn’t want a sexual relationship.
Being rejected, when you have a higher sex drive, can lead to insecurity, self-criticism, confusion, and even feelings of loss. When you have a higher sex drive and your sexual initiations are always being rejected, you may wonder what is going on. Self-doubt and self-consciousness can creep in and you may wonder if your sexual desires are normal. It is normal to find your romantic partner attractive. But, conflict and emotional distress can occur when your partner is always pushing your loving touch away.
Sometimes, a partner with a higher sex drive, who is rejected sexually, develops resentment due to the pain and hurt of sexual rejection. Wanting to have more frequent sex than your spouse can cause you to feel helpless and hopeless. It feels like your sexual needs are not being acknowledged and your needs don’t matter. Sexual rejection can lead to depression and sadness. Marriage counseling at Wisdom Within can help you process and verbalize intense emotions of rejection. You may also bee feeling a sense of loneliness due to your mismatched sexual desires.
When you spouse is sexually rejecting you, you may feel sad, and confused.
You might wonder if your spouse still finds your body attractive. Maybe, you question why your spouse or romantic partner is not into you. You even you may be suspicious that they are cheating because they don’t want to have sex with you. Also, when you face sexual rejection, you may become self-conscious and even wonder if you smell bad. Confusion sets in as you wonder what changed. You may wonder, “Because my spouse sexually turns me down, is there something wrong with me?” Maybe, you have self-doubt from rejection and think your sexual urges are unnatural. You may have internalized shame for wanting to be sexually active when you spouse pushes you away.
When you have a higher sex drive, you may feel guilty for wanting to have sex and be intimate with your spouse or romantic partner. Processing feelings of shame, guilt, anxiety, and rejection is a wonderful part of working with a couples therapist in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling. When you have a higher sex drive, you can talk about low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida.
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If you are the partner with a lower sex drive or no libido at all, you may be struggling with your romantic partner’s advances.
On the other hand, if you are the partner with the lower sex drive, you may feel like every time your partner touches you, that they want sex. With a lower sex drive, or no sex drive at all, you may feel like you don’t want any touch whatsoever. You might not like your body being massaged or touched. Additionally, you may be struggling with emotional exhaustion, anxiety, depression, or sadness. When life is stressful, overwhelming, and tiring, it’s normal to have a low libido.
Couples that have mismatched sex drives and libidos often get stuck in a negative pattern and cycle of sexual rejection.
Instead of making out or French kissing passionately, you may find that you only give and receive a quick peck on the cheek. Sex may feel dull, boring, and you may be disinterested in sex entirely. When you have a low libido or low sex drive, you may be completely disinterested in sexual activities. It might feel like your romantic partner is always asking you to have sex. As well, when you have a low libido or no interest in sex at all, you may feel overwhelming pressure to please your partner’s sexual desires.
When you have a low libido and no sex drive, sex may be unpleasant or painful.
Maybe, when you do have sex, it’s not enjoyable and not pleasurable for you. Thinking back to years into the past, there may have been a time in your life where you did enjoy sexual activities. Now that you have low sexual desire and a low libido, you may even find sex painful.
You should never have to feel like you have to grin and bear it, or suffer through painful sex. Marriage counseling in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you and your spouse address core issues around low libido.
You might be sexually rejecting your romantic partner because you find sex gross, have anxiety about sexual performance, or even find sexual activities dissatisfying.
How can a strict, religious upbringing and lack of sexual education lead to low libido and sex drive issues for couples?
A disinterest in sexual activities can be from growing up with a strict, religious background. Perhaps, you learned that sex was only for procreation and making babies.
Therefore, marriage counseling in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you understand and overcome fear based on anxiety based beliefs around sex. As well, you may have received negative, shameful views around sex due to growing up in a strict, religious community or religious home.
Sometimes, growing up in a strict religious community or home causes adolescents and adults to learn misinformation around sex.
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Inaccurate sexual knowledge can lead to low sexual desire problems and conflict around sex in your marriage.
You may not have received a lot of sexual education growing up due to a strict, religious background. As well, due to restrict, religious background, you may have been taught that sex is taboo, bad, or something you should not talk about.
When you grow up learning that your parents will punish you if you want to talk about sex, that can make it difficult to talk about sex with your romantic partner. A lot of sexual shame and anxiety starts from a young age. Maybe, when you did want to talk about sex, your parents made it very clear that it made them uncomfortable. You didn’t want to make your parents uncomfortable. So, you learned to talk to your friends at school about sex. When it comes to couples counseling, talking about sex can be empowering and healthy.
Marriage counseling in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can be your safe place to learn to get comfortable talking about sex and intimacy.
From opening the conversation regarding sex and intimacy, you can talk about sexual desires, sexual fantasies, your kinks, fetishes, and even power dynamics. You may have always wanted to talk to your partner about one of your sexual fantasies or about one of your kinks. But, you might feel like if you talk to them about it at home, you will upset them. Maybe, you are afraid that your spouse will think that you are weird if you bring up one of your sexual kinks at home.
You can talk about sexual fantasies and sexual activities you have always wanted to try in couples counseling
As well, you may have always wanted to talk to your partner about trying dominant and submissive roles, or role-playing in the bedroom.
From learning to talk about sex and intimacy through marriage counseling, you can feel more confident talking about sex and intimacy at home. As well, your couples therapist in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help bridge the conversation to talking about different sex toys, vibrators, and sex positions, which support more sexual pleasure in general.
Talking about sex and intimacy doesn’t have to bring up anxiety, fear, frustration, or insecurity. Instead, your Wisdom Within Counseling couples therapist in Florida can guide you in safe, consensual conversations about your sexual interests.
You can also talk about your sexual desires, emotions, and sexual needs in marriage therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling.
Why talk about sex, intimacy and libido issues in couples counseling in Florida?
To note, learning proper, accurate sexual health information is a part of marriage counseling in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling. As well, you can learn that sex can be fun and pleasurable, which can support developing and increasing sexual desire.
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Many people grow up with anxiety and fear-based messages around sexual activities and masturbation, due to religious shame and guilt.
Furthermore, your guides and parents may have made you believe that your palms will grow hair if you masturbated or self-pleasured. Maybe, you were yelled at or punished for wanting to ask a question about sex. Perhaps, you never saw your parents kiss or even hold hands all at when you were growing up.
Having parents who never showed affection can lead to a disinterest in sexual touch in adult years. Or, you learned that if you enjoy sex for any other reason besides procreation, you will go to hell. Negative messages around sex are everywhere, and couples counseling aims to provide accurate education around sexual activities.
In couples therapy and marriage counseling in Florida, you can have a safe place to start to unload the religious shame and guilt that you may be carrying. When you have shame, anxiety, and guilt around your sex life and sexuality, you may have low libido and low sex drive issues.
Talk about sexual expectations when it comes to low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling
When we go into a marriage, there is an unspoken and implied expectation that sex should be easy or just happen. And, when sex and intimacy are not easy, or are denied, a person with a higher sex drive, you may feel sadness and inner criticism.
Marriage counseling in Florida helps you and your partner talk about discrepancies in sexual desire, and mismatched libidos.
More so, there are many causes and reasons behind low libido and low sex drive issues in your marriage. Couples therapy in Florida can help you talk about the root causes and shed light on the factors that can contribute to this common concern.
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Did you know that hormones make a huge difference in sex drive?
Hormonal imbalances can significantly affect libido and sex drive in all genders, in both men and women. Fluctuations in hormone levels, such as reduced testosterone in men or imbalances can play a role in low sex drive issues. As well, low estrogen and progesterone in women can lead to a decreased desire and a disinterest in sexual activity.
Additionally, factors like menopause, pregnancy, childbirth, and certain medical conditions can disrupt hormonal balance. Infertility, IVF treatments, and losses around miscarrying can contribute to diminished libido within a marriage. As well, when you are struggling with infertility, sex can become like work, and a chore.
Marriage therapy in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help bring passion, eroticism, and playful back into your sex life.
Emotional issues and mental health aspects play a role in low libido and low sex drive problems
Plus, psychological factors play a crucial role in sexual desire. Stress, anxiety, depression, and unresolved emotional issues can dampen your sex drive.
As well, the pressures of work, financial difficulties, relationship conflicts, or past traumatic experiences can create a psychological burden, making it challenging to engage in sexual intimacy.
Additionally, body image issues, low self-esteem, or negative self-perception can undermine your confidence. If you are trying to lose weight or trying to change your body shape, this can lower your desire for sexual activity.
Are medications or medical conditions causing low libido and low sex drive issues?
To add, various medications and medical conditions can have adverse effects on sexual desire. Certain medications, including antidepressants, antihistamines, and blood pressure medications have side effects that reduce libido.
Hormonal birth control can lead to low libido. Additionally, birth control can make a female’s brain think she is pregnant.
So, thinking about holistic cycle tracking can be something to consider. Women who want alternatives to medication may do tracking ovulation, which can be a more holistic form of family planning, increasing libido.
More so, medical conditions such as diabetes, thyroid disorders, chronic pain, and hormonal disorders can also contribute to low sex drive. Endometriosis can also impact sexual interest. To add, these physical ailments and the associated treatments may impact your body’s physiological responses and overall sexual functioning.
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How can lifestyle choices be a part of low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida?
Notably, the demands of a hectic, overstressed lifestyle can take a toll on sexual desire within your marriage. Essentially, exhaustion from long working hours can lead to libido and sex drive issues.
Overall, lack of quality sleep can also be a factor in low libido and low sex drive issues for couples. Sleep is so important when it comes to having a healthy, sustainable sex drive. Additionally, the responsibilities of raising a family can leave you and your partner fatigued, both physically and mentally.
A female may feel unappreciated if her partner leaves all the child care to her. If a female feels unappreciated or unwanted, she may decline sex.
If you are always worried about your children busting into your bedroom, you will have a difficult time getting sexually aroused. Marriage counseling can help when you feel suck in the mental and emotional role of parenting. More so, couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you re-aliven and bring back the erotic side of yourselves, after becoming parents.
Whether you are over worked and burnt out, or you are overwhelmed with parenting, these issues can lead to low libido and low sex drive issues.
On that note, chronic fatigue and a lack of energy can dampen sexual desire. When you are emotionally exhausted from your career, or parenting, it can be difficult for you and your partner to engage in regular sex and intimacy.
Food and mood have a huge connection. Furthermore, eating processed foods, junk food, living off caffeine, and high sugar foods can lead to a lack of energy. Making small changes such as eating more fresh fruits, verses fruit juices or candy can be a simple change. Switching out white bread for whole wheat bread can be a simple change to add more fiber, slowing down the absorption of sugar.
Unhealthy habits like poor diet, lack of exercise, and excessive alcohol consumption can further contribute to low libido.
As well, adding in more salads and vegetables can improve magnesium, calcium, vitamin C, and potassium, all which are necessary for healthy energy levels.
Yoga, gentle walks, and daily exercise can also help to improve low libido and low sex drive issues. Additionally, regular self-care skills which can help you to manage anxiety and release stress too.
How can marriage therapy in Florida help with healthier communication to repair low libido and low sex drive issues?
To add, the communication dynamics within your marital relationship can significantly impact sexual desire and sex drive. Criticism, yelling, door slamming, and unresolved anger issues can damage your sex life and block intimacy.
Blame and criticism can lead to a low sex drive and non existent sex drive. Rather than using healthy communication skills, some couples may resort to blaming and criticizing each other.
This defensive behavior can create a toxic atmosphere in your romantic relationship and heighten resentment. Working with an intimacy and couples counselor can help you in learning effective problem-solving skills.
Emotional manipulation is a negative communication tactic that many couples don’t realize they are using.
You and your partner may use manipulation tactics, such as guilt-tripping, gaslighting, or playing mind games. Often, these are negative, but used to avoid confronting their own feelings or actions. These manipulative behaviors can create a toxic dynamic in your marriage. Overall, negative communication tactics will erode the foundation of trust and intimacy in your marriage.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to work on low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida.
Marriage counseling in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you reduce and overcome aggression or anger outbursts.
Some couples may vent their frustrations or emotional pain through aggressive or angry behavior. But, it is unhealthy and damaging to your sex drive when you speak in angry, aggressive ways.
Frequent outbursts of anger can create an atmosphere of fear, insecurity, and emotional instability, causing significant harm to your marriage. Working with the marriage counselors at Wisdom Within Counseling in Florida can help you gain positive, healthy communication skills to improve your sex life and intimacy.
Gain healthy communication skills in low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida
Issues such as unresolved conflicts can contribute to lack of emotional connection. If there is any breakdown in communication, this can create emotional distance between you and your partner. This emotional disconnection can lead to a diminished desire for sexual intimacy and low libido issues.
Additionally, mismatched expectations, unaddressed sexual concerns, or a lack of variety and spontaneity in the bedroom can also contribute to low libido within the marriage.
How can we reduce criticism, yelling, door slamming related to low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida?
Notably, negative communication skills like yelling, getting in each other’s faces, or the silent treatment will damage your sex life. Low libido issues and lack of interest in sex can be from a lack of emotional communication.
Often times, before attending couples counseling, partners do not even recognize or realize they are criticizing each other. You might be interrupting each other, getting very harsh with each other, or belittling one another without even realizing it. It might be unclear as to why your partner does not want to receive your touch. Negative communication, yelling, and criticism can be the cause.
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Marriage counseling in Florida can help you gain awareness about the negative communication tactics you might currently be using.
Maybe, you and your spouse grew up watching your parents yell at each other. Yelling and high conflict arguments may be normal due to your childhood and upbringing. However, negative communication tactics will push your partner away, even if this is what is familiar to you both.
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling in Florida help couples resolve conflict, gain healthy communication skills, and talk to each other in a respectful, kind manner. From learning healthy communication skills, you can improve emotional intimacy and emotional connection. As a result of healthy communication skills, you can reduce the criticism, and improve emotional bonding in your marriage. Learning healthy communication skills are one of the many benefits that can improve your sex life and make your sex life more passionate and safe.
Has sex become boring, dull, feels like work, or a chore?
When sex feels boring or dull, one or both of you may develop a disinterest in sex. Marriage counseling in Florida for low libido and low sex drive issues can help bring the spice back. Your sex life needs to have elements of mystery, novelty, playfulness, and sexual diversity. When you are stuck in the same, old, boring routine, sex can become disinteresting.
Are you needing education on more foreplay, caressing, massage, and build up in marriage therapy in Florida help with low libido and low sex drive issues?
Maybe, there is not enough foreplay. The female body needs 45-90 minutes of foreplay, to feel sexually aroused. On the other hand, the male body only needs 3-10 minutes of foreplay to feel ready for sex. When a female partner does not receive adequate foreplay, she may not be adequately sexually aroused.
As a result, sex can feel like an obligation, a chore, and dissatisfying sexually. At times, when foreplay is not adequate, a female’s vagina doesn’t have enough time to get wet, and her clitoris doens’t have time to become engorged.
And, vaginally penetrative sex is painful, uncomfortable, and not as pleasurable as it could be. Learning to explore erogenous zones can be a playful part of low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida. You can do things like kissing your partner’s neck and nibbling their lip when making out.
Working with our marriage therapists in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help improve low libido and low sex drive issues.
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Low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida are treated holistically at Wisdom Within Counseling
Likewise, low libido and low sex drive issues in your marriage are multifaceted and can arise from a combination of different reasons. Couples counseling in Florida can help treat low libido and low sex drive issues. For instance, you can talk about hormonal, psychological, medical, lifestyle, and relationship factors in marriage counseling in Florida.
Furthermore, in marriage counseling in Florida, you can learn to communicate openly. In general, seeking professional guidance from a trained marriage therapist will be really beneficial when it comes to low libido and low sex drive issues. You can’t talk with your mom, dad, or co-workers about your sex life. And, you shouldn’t.
Talking in a confidential space, with a couples therapist in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling, can give you a safe place to overcome low libido and low sex drive issues.
Let’s talk about low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling
In general, you can understand the root cause of low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida. By working together, you and your partner can explore potential solutions.
Holistic changes may include understanding side effects of medications, lifestyle adjustments, sexual skills, and emotional intimacy skills. In couples counseling, you can learn about the value of lengthening and exploring more foreplay, to support female sexual pleasure, clitoral engorgement, and more satisfying sexual experiences.
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling are trained in understanding the complexity of low libido and low sex drive conflicts for couples.
By starting in marriage counseling in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling, you can begin taking proactive steps to address the underlying causes.
As well, talking about low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida can help you and your partner create and restore a healthy and fulfilling sexual relationship. From a more meaningful, passionate, erotic, and pleasurable sex life, you can enhance your overall marital bond.
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When you are struggling with low libido and low sex drive issues, you may be deal with sexual rejection?
Leaving sex drive issues and low libido issues unattended has a damaging impact on your marriage. Marriage counseling in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling help you communicate with your partner the meaning around reaching out for touch. Couples counseling can help take the pressure off touch having to end in penetrative sex or intercourse.
What are the long term effects of sexual conflict and mismatched sex drives?
Emotional disconnection
To note, low libido and decreased sexual desire often creates emotional distance between you and your spouse. Intimacy and sexual connection can symbolize love, affection, and emotional closeness. When the frequency or quality of sexual encounters diminishes, it may leave the partner with a higher sex drive feeling rejected, unattractive, or undesirable. Over time, this emotional disconnect can erode trust, create feelings of resentment, and strain your marital bond.
Couples stop talking about sex because it is uncomfortable, and libido issues never get resolved
Furthermore, sexual dissatisfaction arising from low libido issues can cause communication breakdown in your marriage. The topic of sex can be sensitive and difficult to discuss. When sex is a loaded or triggering topic, it becomes challenging for couples to openly talk about. Marriage therapy in Florida for libido issues can help you address and talk about your sexual concerns camly.
Feelings of embarrassment, shame, or fear of judgment can prevent you and your partner from expressing your needs. Consequently, unresolved frustrations and unmet sexual expectations can further deteriorate communication. When you and your spouse don’t communicate about sex, this lead to a breakdown in overall marital communication.
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Low libido issues and mismatched sex drives can lead to low self-esteem.
Likewise, low libido can have a significant impact on both people’s self-esteem and self-worth. For the partner who is always initiating sex, sexual intimacy often serves as a validation of attractiveness and desirability. When you have loving, meaningful, and passionate sexual experiences, you can both feel confident and valued within your relationship.
However, when one person’s sex drive declines, they may perceive themselves as inadequate or less desirable, leading to a decline in their self-esteem. This diminished sense of self-worth can extend beyond the bedroom. When self-esteem decreases, it impacts other aspects of your lives and strains your marriage.
You can talk about relationship satisfaction as a result of low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida at Wisdom Within
Sexual fulfillment is an integral part of overall relationship satisfaction for many couples. Additionally, a healthy sexual relationship can contribute to higher levels of happiness, contentment, and overall marital quality.
It can be exciting to be intimate and have passionate sex together. However, low libido and a lack of sexual desire can lead to dissatisfaction, sexual frustration, loneliness, and unhappiness within your marriage and relationship.
Over time, persistent marital dissatisfaction can create a negative atmosphere. Relationship dissatisfaction can lead to a decrease in your overall happiness and increase marital conflicts. Sometimes, due to low libido and low sex drive issues, couples will consider separation due to feeling hopeless and frustrated.
Before considering separation or divorce, you can talk about your low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling. Working with a professional intimacy specialist who is trained in low libido and low sex drive issues in couples counseling can help you address the root causes and improve your relationship satisfaction.
Sadly, low libido and low sex drive issues can lead to feeling unwanted, guilty, anxiety, and depression
Low libido and low sex drive can have adverse effects on both partners’ psychological and physical health. Sexual activity releases endorphins, reducing stress levels and promoting overall well-being. Orgasming and having sex together can lead to a natural high for days afterwards. When you and your partner experience a decline in sexual desire, you may miss out on the physical and emotional benefits from sex.
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When you don’t have a sexual relationship, you may feel low in mood, irritable, have trouble sleeping, and even tearful.
Additionally, the strain caused by sexual dissatisfaction can lead to increased stress, anxiety, and depression. Learning tools and sexual skills in couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in Florida can improve your sex life, and your mental and emotional health. Generally, talking about low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida can help improve and rekindle your sex life.
Overall, low libido and low sex drive can impact your marital relationship in a negative way. Emotional distance, communication breakdown, decreased self-esteem, reduced relationship satisfaction, and negative effects on emotional and physical health are just a few of the challenges that couples may face.
How can couples counseling help when you have low libido and low sex drive issues?
You and your partner can learn to communicate openly about low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida. At Wisdom Within Counseling in Florida, you get professional guidance to work together to find solutions that address both your personal and relational needs.
Your marriage therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling will create a safe place of understanding, empathy, and offer you couples therapy homework. As well, you can learn to offer each other mutual support, become resilient, and navigate these challenges through marriage therapy. Just one of the many benefits of talking about low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida is reestablishing a healthy and fulfilling sexual relationship. As a result, you may find that your marital bond strengthens and you get to love each other more deeply than you have ever before.
Overcome negative coping mechanisms in couples counseling
Negative coping mechanisms that you and your partner might be using to cope with guilt, shame, anxiety, and loss due to mismatched libidos can have a negative impact on your marriage. When you are coping in unhealthy ways that can damage your marriage, you may be numbing out, avoiding difficult conversations, or hurting yourself.
As a result of mismatched sexual desires, you may be avoiding conversations, responsibilities, or even isolating yourselves, which can strain your relationship and hinder communication.
For instance, you may be avoiding confronting your feelings due to sexual rejection. Or, due to insecurity, fear, or sexual anxiety, you may be taking part in other negative coping skills. Couples therapy can help you address the deeper intimacy issues causing guilt, shame, anxiety, or loss. From marriage counseling in Florida, you can learn to have difficult conversations in calm way.
Are you turning to pornography as an addiction to numb out emotions?
When you are reaching out for touch, and your partner rejects you, you may even be turning to pornography, masturbation too much, or chatting with other online to feel like your sexual needs and desires are valid.
Notably, pornography addictions and masturbation addictions can lead to erectile dysfunctions, premature ejaculation, issues with sexual arousal with a real-life partner, and performance anxiety. Working with an intimacy specialist and marriage therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help understand if pornography overuse and masturbation addiction is contributing to libido issues.
What are negative coping mechanisms that adults might use to cope with guilt, shame, anxiety, and loss in unhealthy ways that damage a marriage?
At times, you and your partner may be numbing out feelings of sexual rejection, relationship loneliness, and emotional pain by engaging in excessive alcohol or drug use.
Are you turning to alcoholism or drugs as addictions to numb out emotions?
Alcohol and drug use is a way to numb emotional pain or escape reality, which can create further problems. Substance abuse and alcoholism can lead to erratic behavior, emotional volatility, and impaired judgment, which can strain your marriage more and erode trust.
At times, you and your partner may be numbing out feelings of sexual rejection, relationship loneliness, and emotional pain by engaging in excessive alcohol or drug use.
Alcohol and drug use is a way to numb emotional pain or escape reality, which can create further problems. Substance abuse and alcoholism can lead to erratic behavior, emotional volatility, and impaired judgment, which can strain your marriage more and erode trust.
Are you turning to emotional or physical cheating as a way to numb out difficult emotions?
Unfortunately, some couples turn to infidelity, emotional and sexual cheating, secret keeping, and lying when coping in unhealthy way with differences in libido.
Infidelity and cheating behaviors are not a healthy way to cope with sexual rejection, and lead to more isolation and disconnection. Couples counseling can help you address underlying sexual issues within your marriage, rather than keeping secrets or lying.
The team of marriage therapists in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you learn to cope with anxiety, anger, and rejection in healthy, holistic ways
Breathing, calling a friend, doing a mindfulness meditation, and having nutritious meals can be healthy ways to cope. Listening to music, having a feel-good playlist, and regular yoga classes can be holistic ways to cope.
To begin, click below for a phone consult to work on low libido and low sex drive issues in marriage counseling in Florida.
Your Wisdom Within Counseling marriage therapist can help you learn healthy self-care skills to help you cope with stress, anxiety, loneliness, and rejection in healthy ways.
By learning healthy, positive coping strategies on a personal level, you can work on rebuilding a healthier foundation and sex life for your marriage. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can learn personal self-care tools, as well as skills to improve your intimacy and marriage. Holistic therapies are available at Wisdom Within Counseling. You can take part in art, creative painting, yoga therapy, mindfulness meditation, music therapies, and walking therapies. Somatic, mind body therapies at Wisdom Within Counseling support anxiety management and releasing emotions in healthy ways.
Where can you get help from the Wisdom Within Counseling marriage specialists?
Wisdom Within Counseling offers marriage counseling for mismatched sex drives, conflict, and tools for building a healthy, loving, playful sex life in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansa, Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Hampshire, and Maine.
Where in Florida does Wisdom Within Counseling offer intimacy therapy and marriage therapy for low libido and mismatched sex drives?
The Wisdom Within Counseling intimacy and marriage therapists offer help for libido imbalance and mismatched sex drives in Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee, Fort Lauderdale, Hialeah, Port St. Lucie, Cape Coral, Pembroke, Pines, Hollywood, Miramar, Palmetto, North Port, Osprey, Nokomis, Englewood, Lakewood Ranch, Longboat Key, Siesta Key, Anna Maria Island, Miami Beach Coral Gables, Miami Shores, Aventura, Gainesville, Coral Springs, Clearwater, Palm Bay, Miami Gardens, Pompano Beach, West Palm Beach, Melbourne, Oviedo, Sarasota, Titusville, Florida.
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As well as Florida, the Wisdom Within Counseling team offers intimacy therapy and marriage therapy for low libido and mismatched sex drives in Connecticut.
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When you and your partner want a different frequencies of sex and intimacy, the team of intimacy and marriage therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Florida can help.
You may be getting into disagreements and conflicts as a result of mismatched sex drives. There can be a number of different factors that your marriage counselor and couples therapist can take into consideration.
In couples therapy, you can receive different sexual skills, book recommendations, and techniques as homework. Each week that you meet with your marriage therapist in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling, you can start to feel more comfortable talking about sex and your sexuality.
After major life changes, moving in together, the responsibilities of being a mortgage, infertility, pregnancy, and parenting, sex drives can change. Being able to talk about sex drive issues and libido issues can be very helpful.
You can talk about rejection, anxiety, loss, fear, sadness, and create to a positive sex life together.
Through marriage counseling in Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling, you can talk about how to create a healthier and more holistic lifestyle. As well, you can improve positive communication skills, reduce conflict, and better communicator sexual needs and fantasies.
You can start to develop a sense of playfulness, passion, and eroticism in your bedroom like you have never had before. From working with a marriage therapist and intimacy specialist at Wisdom Within Counseling, you can feel sexually connected again.
