03/13/2024
Let’s talk about imbalanced s*x drive in relationships.
Have you ever been in a relationship where your partner wanted to have more s*x than you? Or where you wanted to have more s*x than your partner?
Intimacy is comprised of two things; emotional openness, and physical closeness. With physical closeness that could look like, cuddling, hugging, kissing, holding each other, stroking or touching and s*x.
S*x is a deep way to connect with another person and if you’re like me, you may feel the need to connect with your partner this way as an healthy exchange of energy and intimacy.
But what if you or your partner don’t want to have s*x? There are very many valid reasons for not wanting to have s*x, how tired you are, how energetic you are, the mood you’re in, health issues, past traumas, where your goals and mind are focussed at the moment.
And simply put, no one should ever feel like they are being forced to have s*x.
But a healthy relationship INCLUDES s*x. How often depends on the couple. But I think most would agree, you are committing your life to this one person and that this one person (and yourself) are the source of your s*xual pleasure, unless you are in an open relationship agreement.
In many cases s*xual appitite is mismatched which should be avoided at the outset if possible. Alway match with someone who matches your s*x drive! BUT things happen like HAVING BABIES! And when you have a baby as a woman, a huge amount of energy goes to creating that life inside your belly, that is your s*xual energy and it goes to creating the baby. Once you have the baby a huge amount of that s*xual energy goes from your s*xual organs up to your breasts to feed the baby and to connect and bond with the baby.
At this point in a relationship, men really need to be taught that they have to be patient with their partner, because a lot of their s*xual drive and urge will be directed to basically providing life support for their offspring.
Men and women can manage their s*xual urges with Taoist ta***ic s*xual energy practices like circulating, as in the exercise, called the Microcosmic orbit. What this does is it takes a s*xual energy from the s*xual area in the s*xual organs, the testicles and the ovaries, and it circulates it through to main energy channels up the spine and down the front of the body, this redistributes the s*xual energy to all the other organs and all the other meridian pathways as in Chinese medicine meridian pathways. This practice is very healing for the body as it brings more energy to areas that might need healing and give them a boost, which intern affect the mental and emotional aspects of your being as well. These practises are very rare is not many people learn about Ta**ra and I’m sure that’s one of the reason why you are here on this page.
Now there’s the problem of feeling rejected by your partner if they don’t want to have s*x with you which is I’m sure a reality for many of you. Please comment below if you’ve been in either of these situations where your partner is demanding, s*x, or rejecting s*xual advances.
Feeling rejected by s*xual advances is also very difficult to deal with if that is some thing that helps you to feel connected to your partner. Now I want to separate this feeling rejected into two different categories when you feel rejected and this hurts you because that is a way that you like to emotionally connect and physically connect to your partner. The other category is that you feel rejected, because you simply have physical urges that you need to take care of.
When it comes to feeling rejected simply because you have urges you need to release I would seriously consider learning Ta**ra so that you can take responsibility for your urges.
When it comes to feeling rejected because s*x is a way that you connect deeply, Spiritually, emotionally, physically with your partner that rejection can be really hard because it feels like your partner is turning away from you. And this turning away behaviour from any kind of bid for connection like a bit for conversation or a bid for a hug or s*x has been noted as one of the most important things to keep intimacy alive in relationships and a predictor of success in relationship according to the Gottman Institute.
So if you’re feeling rejected by a lack of your partner, turning towards your bids for s*xual connection, there could be two things that you need to focus on. Number one is becoming a bit more “secure” in yourself so you don’t feel devastated if you get rejected once in a while. But if this is ongoing and you are persistently rejected, you may try to understand what is going on with your partner and why they’re rejecting your bids for s*xual connection by having good communication, even s*x therapy to work out your differences and maybe get to the bottom of why the rejection is happening. It could be health problems for example. Any health problem is going to take that energy instead of s*x. Energy is energy in the body. When you are sick the body takes the energy to heal itself. S*x goes on the back burner, but can be brought back with Taoist Qigong and s*xual vitality practises.
Number two is, is this is a mismatch of s*xual libido between you? If so, and this is going to continue for a long time in the relationship, then it should be considered potentially as a mismatch. This is why it’s important to qualify the libido match before you commit to a partner.
Life is not black and white, and many things can happen that can affect the regularity of our s*xual intimacy. Values that each partner holds for Intimacy and Connection often have to be re-visited as a couple to place importance on the connection instead of letting stressors and other things that can be avoided, impacting your relationship.
Learning Ta**ra together and doing Ta***ic practices, can re-instill those values of connection and intimacy by giving you practises that you try with your partner from a qualified instructor like myself, or finding a workshop or a retreat where you can explore these practises together.
Learning Ta**ra on your own, can insure that you maintain a healthy, s*xual vitality for yourself, your relationship and for your energy levels that feed all other things in your life. For example, many of the women that I have worked with in retreats, and one on one come to Ta**ra for a variety of reasons sometimes it’s past trauma, shame and shutdown, s*xual dysfunction, or just a desire to be more or****ic, or to elevate the vibration of s*xual habits that they’ve learned from our culture and connect to a higher more loving, spiritual, s*xual, vibrant energy.
We’re all on this journey of life that has its ups and downs for sure, and especially with women’s s*xual health, menstrual and menopause cycles there can be ups and downs, which impact how s*xy and motivated we are for s*x!
So what’s your experience been in regards to these ideas above? Leave your comments below.