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When your partner wants to become celibate in a sexual relationship

My partner of five years told me they want to stop having sex completely and I love them but I do not know if I can live like this forever.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between honoring a partner's authentic needs and honoring your own creates an impossible choice between love and desire.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Celibacy & Love Without Sex?”

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