How To Rebuild Desire & Sexual Intimacy In Long-Term Relationships: With Sexologist Isiah McKimmie

How To Rebuild Desire & Sexual Intimacy In Long-Term Relationships: With Sexologist Isiah McKimmie

April 28, 2026 · 47 min · Season 1 · Episode 78

About this episode

The episode discusses how to rebuild desire and sexual intimacy in long-term relationships with insights from sexologist Isiah McKimmie.

If your relationship looks great on paper but your physical connection has quietly faded, you’re not broken and you’re definitely not alone. We sit down with Australia’s leading relationship therapist and sexologist Isiah McKimmie to name the real reason intimacy disappears in long-term relationships: it drifts, slowly, until touch feels risky and sex turns into the unspoken tension sitting between you. We unpack why “quick fixes” rarely work and why sexual intimacy can’t be treated like a s...

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