I'm a Good Partner. So Why Does Sex Feel Like a Chore?

If sex has started to feel like something you get through rather than something you want to experience, you're not alone — and it's not about attraction or love.

For many high-functioning, responsible people, pleasure has quietly been crossed off the list of things that matter. And their partners feel it.

This episode covers:

  • How a productivity mindset migrates into the bedroom — and what it does to desire and intimacy

  • The difference between accommodating sex and actually wanting it, and why that gap matters

  • Why some people struggle to know what they want at all — in bed or anywhere else — and how to start finding out

  • What it looks like to gradually rebuild a tolerance for pleasure, outside the bedroom and in it

  • The real cost to a relationship when one partner has stopped letting themselves want things

This is the kind of work Catherine does with couples and individuals all the time. If you're curious what it might look like to explore this, contact Catherine for a 30-minute consultation.

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