Stephen Snyder

Nov 10, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Snyder

As one of New York's top sex therapists, I've treated more than 3,000 couples and individuals over the past 30 years. And over those decades I've noticed a seismic shift in habits. The most pressing sexual issue of the 20th century was women lacking desire and turning down sex. The old 'Not tonight, dear, I have a headache' idea. But now, things have changed completely. The most common dilemma for couples in long-term relationships today is men going missing in the bedroom.

Oct 5, 2023 | electricliterature.com | Kelly Link |Yoko Ogawa |Stephen Snyder |Dan Chaon

For a long time, I’ve described my writing as “spooky literary”—the term that seems closest to the pulse of this genre-muddling category I love so much. “Spooky literary” books have ghosts or monsters or werewolves, and they also have complex characters and gorgeous prose. They have moonlit swamps or dark New England woods or shadowy basements, and they ask troubling questions about what it means to be human.

Sep 21, 2023 | quickanddirtytips.com | Stephen Snyder

It is a truth universally acknowledged that among the most dreaded four words anyone can hear from a partner are “We need to talk.”I looked up “We need to talk” on Urban Dictionary.

Sep 20, 2023 | quickanddirtytips.com | Stephen Snyder

I’m sitting in my office, listening to a patient of mine tell me about something that happened over the weekend. His wife was in a bad mood, and he couldn’t figure out what to do about it. Whenever he’d say something to try to be helpful, she’d say it was the wrong thing to say. But whenever he gave her space, she’d say she felt abandoned. I’m listening as best I can, not sure exactly how to help.

Sep 20, 2023 | quickanddirtytips.com | Stephen Snyder

Open relationships get a lot of press these days. According to one prominent online women’s magazine, of the ten most Google-searched relationship questions of 2017, number six was “What is an open relationship?” and number four was “What is a poly relationship?”(correction_with_script)To me, that seems paradoxical. I mean, how many couples these days have enough time and energy for even one relationship, let alone two or more?