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When couples struggle with sleep apnea affecting intimacy and connection

My husband and I both have sleep apnea and we've been sleeping in separate rooms for months because of the CPAP noise and he says he's fine with it but I think we're losing something important and neither of us knows how to talk about wanting intimacy back without making the other feel guilty about their medical needs.

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Two people are trying to balance medical necessity with emotional and physical intimacy, caught between health needs and relationship needs.

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