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How to Navigate Desire When Your Partner Is Recovering

My husband had a heart attack four months ago and I know I should be patient but I miss being touched and I feel guilty for even wanting it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief and desire can coexist in ways that feel impossible to reconcile with our ideas of goodness.

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