Dear Sugars

Encore: Sexless Relationships, Part 2

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Dec 3, 2021
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ANECDOTE

Husband's Sexless Marriage Story

  • A husband shares his struggle with a sexless marriage due to his wife's trauma from past sexual abuse.
  • Despite therapy and efforts, they have only had sex once in seven months, highlighting deep challenges in healing and intimacy.
INSIGHT

Healing Trauma Needs Playful Touch

  • Healing from sexual trauma often requires new, reparative touch experiences beyond talk therapy.
  • Playful, novel activities like dance or improvisation can reignite a sense of sexual self and pleasure.
INSIGHT

Erotic Life Needs Playfulness

  • Desire often awakens through stepping out of routine into playful, surprising erotic spaces.
  • Erotic life thrives with novelty, flirtation, and breaking monotony, not through obligation or routine duty.
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