Open Marriage Story: Rediscovering Intimacy, Myself & Owning My Desire After Motherhood with Sydney Dubey
- Gaby Bueno
- Feb 24
- 3 min read
Motherhood changes everything — your body, your identity, your priorities, and often your relationship with intimacy. In this episode of Mom’s Talk Sex, Sydney Dubeyopens up about her personal journey through marriage, motherhood, divorce, healing, and rediscovering intimacy after motherhood.
Why Rediscovering Intimacy After Motherhood Matters
Many women slowly disconnect from themselves while raising children, supporting partners, managing careers, and carrying emotional responsibilities. Sexuality becomes an afterthought. Pleasure feels distant. Confidence fades quietly in the background.
Sydney shares how this disconnection happened in her own marriage and how she eventually found her way back to herself.
How Motherhood Can Disconnect Women From Their Bodies
According to Sydney, intimacy often fades when couples become consumed with parenting and responsibilities.
“Trying to be the best dad and the best mom and the best caregiving team, we failed to focus on ourselves.”
This experience is incredibly common. Many women stop prioritizing their own desires, emotional needs, and sensuality after becoming mothers. Over time, exhaustion, stress, and routine can create emotional distance in relationships.
Rediscovering intimacy after motherhood begins with recognizing that your needs still matter.
Healing the Relationship With Your Body
Sydney also discussed her difficult health journey, including diagnoses like rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and chronic pain. Instead of accepting limitations placed on her, she began exploring natural healing, movement, nutrition, and holistic wellness.
Today, she lives pain-free, practices hot yoga, hikes mountains, lifts weights, and helps others transform their health naturally.
Her story highlights the deep connection between physical wellness, emotional healing, and sexuality.
Rediscovering Intimacy After Motherhood Starts With Self-Connection
One of the most powerful moments in the conversation came when Sydney explained how she lost touch with herself during marriage and motherhood.
“You get in that bad habit of ignoring yourself, your needs, your desires, and prioritizing everyone else.”
For many women, rediscovering intimacy after motherhood is not simply about sex. It’s about reconnecting with identity, confidence, pleasure, and authenticity.
Sydney explained that healing required:
Taking time to rediscover herself
Exploring what she truly wanted
Rebuilding confidence
Learning to reconnect emotionally and physically
Allowing herself to receive love and intimacy again
The Importance of Feeling Seen and Desired
Sydney shared how meaningful relationships and conversations helped her reconnect with the woman she used to be before motherhood and marriage consumed her identity.
Sometimes healing happens through honest conversations, emotional validation, feeling desired again, being reminded of your strengths, seeing yourself through someone else’s eyes.
She described how reconnecting with an old boyfriend reminded her of her confidence, sensuality, and authentic self.
That experience became part of her journey toward rediscovering intimacy after motherhood.
How Women Can Reclaim Their Sexual Energy
Every woman’s path will look different, but Sydney believes reconnecting with intimacy requires courage, exploration, and self-awareness.
Some ways women can begin reconnecting include:
Prioritizing self-care
Exploring sensual movement practices
Reconnecting with pleasure without shame
Improving body confidence
Having honest conversations with partners
Allowing space for desire again
Surrounding themselves with supportive people
Healing intimacy is not about perfection. It’s about remembering who you are underneath the stress, responsibilities, and expectations.
This conversation is a powerful reminder that women are allowed to evolve, heal, and rediscover themselves at every stage of life.
Motherhood does not have to mean losing your sensuality, confidence, or connection to pleasure.
Rediscovering intimacy after motherhood is ultimately about coming home to yourself — emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
Whether you are married, divorced, healing, dating again, or simply trying to reconnect with your body, your desires matter.
And it’s never too late to rediscover who you are.
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About Sydney Dubey
A mother of 2, an Angel & the sweetest Demon. Now divorced. Feel like I have lived a 100 lives in 1. Everything from a girlfriend, to a wife, to a sugar date at 40, to dating as a single mom, and back to being a girlfriend again while being a Mom sometimes full-time and sometimes part-time.
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