Sexless Marriages & Gender Division | Zac Fine & Marijke Roberts

I’m joined by two therapists from my practice, Zac Fine and Marijke Roberts. This informal conversation marks the start of a new monthly series where we speak openly about marriage, intimacy, sexlessness, consent, and the growing tension many couples feel between men and women. 👉 Book online sessions with Zac or Marijke: https://laurahow.com/online-therapists/ We talk honestly about what happens when sex disappears from a long-term relationship, why this causes deep distress for many people, and how fear, withdrawal, resentment, and cultural messaging pulls couples apart. 👉 Book a session with Zac: https://laurahow.com/therapists-zac-fine/ 👉 Book a session with Marijke: https://laurahow.com/therapists-marijke-roberts/ In this episode, we discuss: ✔️ Why long-term sexlessness is a serious relational issue ✔️ Consent, fear, and confusion around initiating sex in marriage ✔️ How power struggles and withdrawal develop over time ✔️ Why sex often means reassurance, grounding, and connection for men ✔️ Responsive desire, willingness, and curiosity in long-term intimacy ✔️ How couples can get stuck, and what helps them soften again ✔️ Why healing is possible, even when patterns run deep We’ll be recording this podcast monthly, and we’d love to hear from you. 👉 Leave your questions in the comments for the next episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe for weekly conversations about: Sexless marriages, intimacy loss, emotional withdrawal, consent, attachment, and rebuilding connection in long-term relationships. 👉 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE_Fs1wPifrghIGdSzsbrKg?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 Need support? Work with me or one of the therapists on my team: https://laurahow.com/online-therapists/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💎 More ways to connect and grow: 💠 Therapists — Work with me: https://laurahow.com/work-for-me/ 💠 Join my newsletter: https://laurahow.com/newsletter-signup/ 💠 Support my work: https://laurahow.com/support/ 📲 Follow me: Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/laurahow/ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/laurahowcounsellor Twitter (X) → https://twitter.com/laurahow ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌚️ Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Hashtags: #SexlessMarriage #MarriageTherapy #SexInMarriage #ConsentInRelationships #IntimacyInMarriage #GenderDivision #LongTermRelationships #marriagepodcast #AttachmentAndIntimacy #LoveAndCherishPodcast