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Carolin Kebekus Names ‘Overtouched Syndrome’ in ARD Take on Parents’ Sex Lives

She reframes waning desire as a workload problem that fathers can help fix.

Overview

  • The new Die Carolin Kebekus Show episode, which launched Thursday on ARD Mediathek and aired later on Das Erste, features her candid take on intimacy after a first child.
  • She sums up the trade-off with a line from the show: “If I have to choose between sleep and sleeping together, good night.”
  • Kebekus describes “overtouched syndrome,” meaning a day of sticky hands and constant clinging can leave a parent wanting no touch at all.
  • She dismisses scheduled “date” fixes as unromantic and urges fathers to take real chores and childcare to ease mothers’ “mental load,” citing a partner who phoned an astronaut in orbit to ask where the printer paper was.
  • Beyond family life, she says Marie-Louise Eta’s rise to head coach was overdue and argues the barrier is clubs that still rarely let women lead.