Posted by Krazy Kat on May 13, 2002, at 12:28:37
In reply to Hope this isn't inappropriate--(wince)more on sex!, posted by Roo on May 13, 2002, at 10:19:10
That's exactly how I would have titled this thread. :)
I'm going through something somewhat similar right now. I'm rather "stabilized" compared to my many years of manic-depression, and I don't know how to handle sex and intimacy. I used to be very sexual when manic, and then withdraw when depressed. I, too, have used sex to "keep a relationship together" so to speak, or out of guilt because I'm such a difficult person to live with.
Top that, with the fact that I seem to have almost no sex drive right now, and it's tough. (I'm not an AD, either).
I am trying to learn how to have a healthy sex life with my husband. But even though I can talk about almost anything, that subject still makes me squirm.
One reason I've avoided therapy re: this, is each time I've tried, about four times I guess, I was told I was sexually abused. But I wasn't.
But I do seem to be frightened of sex, so there's something going on. Puritanical upbringing? Guilt for... what? I wonder...
Anyway, I don't have any solutions right now, just commiseration. I hope someone on this board does.
- kk
poster:Krazy Kat
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