This week on Girl Stop Talking, we’re breaking down the relationship patterns that quietly follow us into our dating lives, friendships, and every uncomfortable conversation we would rather avoid.We unpack secure, anxious, and avoidant attachment styles—including how they develop, how they show up in adult relationships, and why understanding your attachment style isn’t an excuse for unhealthy behavior. We also explore the difference between healthy interdependence and codependence, kindness versus people-pleasing, and what it actually looks like to set boundaries without feeling like you’re being mean.Then we get into friendship conflict: how to have the hard conversation, recognize when a relationship can be repaired, and identify the “Four Horsemen” behaviors that can slowly destroy connection—criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling.If you’ve ever overextended yourself to keep the peace, avoided conflict until you exploded

What if the thing standing between you and better intimacy isn’t a lack of chemistry—but the fact that neither of you knows how to say what you actually want?This week on *Girl Stop Talking*, Tatum sits down with intimacy expert Susan Bratton for an honest, playful conversation about communicating your wants, understanding your needs, and sharing your fantasies without making your partner feel inadequate or pressured. They explore why so many couples struggle to talk about intimacy, how to create emotional safety before introducing something new, and the difference between inviting your partner into a fantasy and handing them a sexual assignment.From asking for what you want without criticism to understanding whether you desire another person—or simply crave novelty, attention, freedom, or adventure—this episode is about opening the conversation before you open the relationship.Plus, Susan gets properly lubricated with the show’s signature icebreakers befo

Happy fucking Monday, bitches! This week, Girl Stop Talking is coming to you live from STIMULATE, the sexual health and wellness conference in Nashville, with a lineup of quickies—and for once, we’re talking about interviews.First, I sit down with Dr. Tara to cover basically everything you’ve ever wanted to ask your most sexually adventurous friend: open relationships, sex cruises, squirting, queefing, and what happens when curiosity leaves the group chat and enters real life.Then Susan Bratton joins me to talk about her Love Dynamics approach to communication—understanding how you want to feel in a relationship, learning how to express those needs, and helping your partner love you in a way you can actually receive. Because apparently “they should just know” is not a communication strategy.I also catch up with sexual health educator and *Pleasure, Please!* author Ashley Cobb about creating more inclusive, shame-free sex education, helping women comm