What happens when you still love your partner but no longer feel sexually attracted to them? Loss of desire in long-term relationships can involve pressure, mismatched libido, performance anxiety, pornography, aging, weight changes, resentment, attachment, and sometimes a simple change in attraction that therapy cannot force back into existence.

Sue Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Therapy offers a strong framework for understanding how rejection, pursuit, shame, and emotional safety shape sexual connection. This episode also looks at sexless marriages, affairs, secrecy, aging and attraction, unconventional sexual agreements, and the limits of couples therapy when emotional closeness improves but erotic desire does not.

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Therapist vs psychologist vs psychiatrist can get confusing quickly, especially when your mental health problems feel serious. The highest credential does not automatically mean the deepest expertise in addiction, trauma, couples therapy, OCD, ADHD, autism, or whatever problem brought you to treatment.

Addiction, trauma, couples therapy, ADHD and autism assessment, and medication management all require different kinds of expertise. A clinician can be highly trained and still have limited experience in the area you actually need help with. This episode also looks at therapist fit, professional limits, and why claiming expertise in nearly everything should raise questions.

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Want to work together? I see psychotherapy clients in Florida: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/brian-granneman-naples-fl/1153470

I also offer accountability, coaching, and sober companion services. Send an email: brian@naplesintegratedrecovery.com

Getting sober can end the immediate chaos of alcoholism, but families often keep living with patterns that developed during the drinking years. Secrecy, mistrust, defensiveness, watching for danger, controlling information, and avoiding certain subjects can all continue long after the alcohol is gone. Using the story of a couple I worked with, this episode looks at how a family can become organized around addiction and why those habits do not automatically disappear with sobriety.

The episode also explores rebuilding trust after addiction, the difference between privacy and secrecy, why a spouse may still question their own perceptions, and what recovery asks from both people once the crisis has passed. For people in Al-Anon, partners of someone in recovery, and families affected by alcoholism, the deeper work is learning how to live together without the old rules that once helped everyone survive.

Check out the website for articles published weekly: www.naplesintegratedrecovery.com

Want to work together? I see psychotherapy clients in Florida: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/brian-granneman-naples-fl/1153470

I also offer accountability, coaching, and sober companion services. Send an email: brian@naplesintegratedrecovery.com