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