344: Stop the Toxic Sex Cycle: Blame and Forget
Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy
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I Don't Remember My Partner's Deep Needs
The sexual withdrawer has internal strategies as well to avoid conflict. You are actually convicting your partner of not trusting their response, afraid they're going to get angry and critical. And then my partner is completely abandoned, which builds their frustration exactly sowi take that moment where you make a choice not to engage to feel safer. Your brain has already decided this isn't going to work. That wat's why i'm not going to try think about how like, unfair that is when you don't even get a chance to see how you respond.
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