My partner and I haven't been physically intimate in four months and we keep circling around it without actually talking about what's happening or what we each need. We're both just waiting for the other person to bring it up first, and the silence is making everything feel more fragile.
More people experience this than they realize.
The absence of intimacy has become its own presence in the relationship, creating a void that both partners acknowledge but neither knows how to cross.
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