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How past trauma resurfaces in present intimacy

My partner's touch feels triggering lately and I don't understand why since nothing bad happened recently.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The body holds memory independent of conscious narrative, creating responses that confound our understanding of cause and effect.

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