98. How Masculine-Feminine Polarity Teachings Undermine Intimacy
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
Release Date: 11/02/2022
173. Unlocking Passion: How Confidence Shapes Success in Love and Life - Expert Advice from Dr Alexandra Stockwell
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD dives into confidence and how it shapes success in love and life. She sheds light on the crucial role of self-confidence and how attractive it is within intimate relationships, and more specifically, how it plays out among ambitious, educated couples. Dr Alexandra explores the common scenario where one partner craves more from their relationship while the other seems content with the status quo. She provides guidance on how to reignite passion and cultivate a deeper sense of self-worth, emphasizing the magnetic...
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172. Navigating Evolving Desires in Marriage: Communication, Intimacy, and Growth with The Intimacy Doctor
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD dives into the intriguing subject of evolving desires within marriages. The conversation offers a deep dive into understanding, embracing, and communicating our desires, especially as they change over time. Dr Alexandra touches upon the natural progression of tastes and preferences, illustrating how something as simple as a shift in food likes can symbolize the broader dynamic of changing desires. She then moves on to explore the more complex and sensitive evolution of sexual preferences within a committed relationship...
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171. Emotional & Erotic Intimacy Insights: Dr. Alexandra Stockwell Answers Your Questions
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD, responds to questions submitted by listeners, providing emotional and erotic intimacy insights to help improve your marriage. The themes of the questions are varied, as they focus on the role of commitment when it comes to creating intimacy, the pursuit of individual passions and hobbies when a partner isn’t interested but wants to do things together, and the impact of birth trauma in rebuilding your sexual connection. Also in this episode: The crucial role of commitment in enhancing intimacy. The pursuit...
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170. Unlocking Deeper Connection: Dr. Alexandra Stockwell on Mastering Emotional & Erotic Intimacy Within Marriage
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage Podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD, explores the critical role of adopting a growth mindset in mastering emotional and erotic intimacy within marriage. Offering actionable advice and insights that challenge conventional perspectives, she guides listeners on how to effectively engage their partners in conversations aimed at enriching their marriage. By positioning a growth mindset as a powerful agent for transformation, Dr. Alexandra encourages her audience to transcend the ordinary, with her strategies to enhance emotional, sensual, and erotic intimacy in...
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169. Passion Play: Transforming Marriage through Creativity and Spontaneity
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage Podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD discusses rejuvenating and expanding erotic connection as an essential means for transforming your marriage. She invites educated and successful couples looking to infuse their marriages with passion and aliveness to embrace unfamiliarity and creativity. Dr. Alexandra draws on her personal and professional experience to offer listeners unique perspectives on cultivating a deeply intimate and satisfying marital bond. She stresses the importance of spontaneity and letting go of control as keys for deepening...
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168. Unlocking Deeper Connection: The Power of Small Gestures in Marriage
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage Podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD dives into the profound impact that small, thoughtful gestures can have on creating a deeper connection in marriage. She emphasizes that such acts don’t have to be expensive or time-consuming, as the smallest deeds are sometimes the most significant in nurturing a deep connection between partners. Put differently, small gestures are the seeds which grow into emotional, sensual, and erotic intimacy blossoms. Dr. Alexandra brings up the concept that 'Small is Beautiful,' explaining how minor, deliberate actions—like...
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167. The Art of Listening with Love: Foundation for a Passionate Marriage
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage Podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD dives into the importance of communication and how essential it is in creating a passionate marriage. She describes ways to adjust how you listen so as to evoke more depth, meaning, and intimacy in what your partner shares with you. Dr. Alexandra is a seasoned expert when it comes to fostering deep connection in couples. Drawing on her experience as a physician, relationship and intimacy coach, and her own 27-year marriage, she describes common misconceptions that often play out in marital discourse and how to avoid...
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166. Revitalize Your Marriage: Learn to Invest in Emotional and Erotic Intimacy
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage Podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD, invites educated, successful couples to revitalize their marriage as she guides them to experience new heights of emotional, sensual, and erotic intimacy. Emphasizing the unique nature of investing when it comes to your relationship, Dr. Alexandra describes how such investments yield both immediate and long-term returns. Through personal anecdotes and testimonials, she encourages listeners to nurture their marriages, detailing the transformational journey involved in going from a good relationship to a great one....
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165. From Sex Ed to Sensual Mastery: Unleashing Your Artistry in the Bedroom
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage Podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD, delves into the shortcomings of traditional sex education and proposes a new paradigm for learning about sexual intimacy. She discusses the importance of emotional intimacy, experimentation, and releasing preconceived notions about sexuality to craft an artful, gratifying sexual experience. The episode also highlights the crucial role parents have in ensuring their children receive an education that encompasses pleasure, consent, and respect within sexual encounters. Also in this episode: Knowing one's anatomy...
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164. The Power of Affection and Showing Love to Your Spouse (and how it Benefits your Children)
The Intimate Marriage Podcast, with Intimacy Coach Alexandra Stockwell, MD
In this episode of the Intimate Marriage Podcast, Alexandra Stockwell, MD, explores the profound effect that a loving and intimate parental relationship has on children. Alexandra highlights the naturalness of affection within the family setting, and describes the astonishment of those who have never witnessed such intimacy between their own parents. This episode stresses the importance of nurturing the spousal relationship for its own sake and also as a gift to one's children. She also challenges the traditional notion that children should always come first at the expense of the couple's...
info_outlineImplementing masculine and feminine polarity teachings prohibits the cultivation of uncompromising intimacy, because they place you in a particular role that inhibits the expression who you really are. This is an outdated view on relationships and ultimately undermines the idea that the tension between “masculine” and “feminine” ways of being creates erotic chemistry in a relationship. This usually is understood to mean that having a man embody masculine energy and a woman embody feminine energy (in a heteronormative relationship) will result in a wonderful marriage. It’s far more important to focus on your own authenticity and self-expression, rather than taking on a particular gender role.
In this episode, I discuss:
- How masculine and feminine roles have changed over the decades (including examples from my own relatives)
- Why I believe that masculine and feminine polarity teachings are extremely restrictive
- My client, Suzanne, who was hesitant to participate in coaching because she was so concerned about giving up who she is in order to fit into a “feminine” role (as she felt she would be losing herself in the process)
- When masculine and feminine polarity teachings ARE helpful in an intimate marriage
Resources referenced in this episode:
- Uncompromising Intimacy podcast episode
- Going Beyond the 5 Love Languages podcast episode
- Download the first chapter of my book, Uncompromising Intimacy
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About Alexandra Stockwell, MD
My mission is to change the cultural narrative around long-term relationships from one of ongoing stagnation and compromise to the delectable joy and deep gratification a couple feels while building passion and excitement on a daily basis.
For over two decades, I have been guiding men and women to bring pleasure and purpose back into all aspects of life— from the daily grind of running a household to creating ecstatic experiences in the bedroom!
I embarked on this journey not only for my patients but for myself and my own relationship. I wanted more for my life and my marriage than logistics, and discussions about childcare.