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Why spiritual celibacy sometimes becomes emotional avoidance

I've been celibate for two years thinking it would deepen my practice but I'm lonely and sexually frustrated and starting to think I'm using spirituality to avoid intimacy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The path to awakening includes rather than excludes the full spectrum of human experience, including the vulnerabilities of intimate connection.

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