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Scenario

When trauma survivors struggle to maintain intimacy despite individual healing

My girlfriend and I have been together three years and we're both trauma survivors who've done a lot of individual healing work, but when we try to be intimate we still get activated and retreat into our separate coping strategies. We love each other but we're becoming like careful roommates.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Individual therapeutic progress doesn't automatically translate into the capacity for sustained relational vulnerability.

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Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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