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When your partner's sexual trauma creates lasting physical intimacy challenges

My girlfriend was raped in college and has vaginismus and we've been together two years without penetrative sex and I love her but I'm starting to feel resentful.

Mira
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The body keeps score of trauma in ways that can make love feel like another kind of loss.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Love and trauma — loving someone with a difficult past?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.