Can A Relationship Survive Bad Sex?
7/6/202631 min
What do you do when you meet someone who seems perfect… but the sex is terrible? It's one of the hardest dating questions to admit out loud: Can a relationship survive without physical chemistry, or is attraction something you can't force? In this episode, I answer a listener's question about disappointing intimacy with an otherwise incredible partner, and why you never have to choose between emotional compatibility and physical connection. We also talk about what it means when someone suddenly changes their mind about marriage and children after years together, why those breakups rarely happen "out of nowhere," and whether a major financial imbalance should be a dealbreaker later in life.
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First 90 secondsJillian Turecki· Host0:00
[gentle music] Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Jillian on Love, where I get to talk about everything relationships, including the relationship with ourselves. So today, I'm answering some pretty important questions. Uh, questions like, what happens when you meet someone who's amazing but the sex is terrible? Questions like, what if there's a huge gap in your, in your finances where you're the woman and you make all the money and he doesn't make any? And then of course, what happens when your partner breaks up with you that feels, like, out of the blue, um, because you want a family and they don't? So without further ado, here I go.
Speaker 20:47
Okay, so I'm 46 years old, uh, divorced four years ago, have been kind of back dating for the past couple years. Um, I feel like I've gotten good at picking better people. Um, I recently went out with a guy who I felt like was exactly what I was looking for. Um, you know, aligned on political and social issues, smart, a reader, um, you know, feminist, um, very kind, honest, direct, transparent, has his own therapy going on. Um, we talked for hours. So date three, um,