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How couples address intimacy changes after brain injury

My husband had a stroke last year and we're both pretending our sex life and intimacy will just naturally come back but it's not happening. We're too scared and embarrassed to talk about how his brain injury changed this part of our relationship.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Shame and fear are preventing you from grieving what changed and discovering what remains possible.

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