In my current workshop “Get out of the Mama No-Sex-Trap” the Whatsapp channel is running sore. Before we devote ourselves to lust, the first few weeks are about finding the blockages for lust. And experience has shown that it has it all. Because often there is a lot of anger towards the partner.

“If he touches me again during sex like I’ve told him a thousand times that I don’t want it.”

“If he wants sex in the morning, but I still have to get the child ready for daycare.”

“If he feels like toys and that’s too exhausting for me at the moment.”

“If he kisses me – and I can already feel that he wants sex now.”

“When I’m too tired to cuddle at night and he’s hurt and withdrawn.”

The problem is only at first glance: “the men”. In truth, the problem lies deeper. Society has the wrong expectations of mothers. There is little understanding of their transformations: pregnancy, birth, fertility treatment, unfulfilled desire to have children, total surgery and menopause and what that can do to women, their souls and their bodies.

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