Intimacy - Feeling like I'm abusing
Adam A Gedman
Registrant
Not sure how to best describe this, but here goes.
For the last few weeks, anytime my wife and I get intimate, I feel like my touch, or anything I do in participation is abusive.
The feeling is disturbing and is becoming limiting.
I don't want this to drag out too much as I have built up in my head that the longer this goes on the more difficult it will be to move past it.
I can understand the feeling is not a true representation of reality, intellectually, and have asked my wife to reinforce this by verbalizing and positively acknowledging my actions, but the background feeling is that I am abusing her.
Obviously this is connected to the abuse I suffered, but I don't seem to be able to get past this, and am now avoiding intimacy all together.
I mentioned this to my T last session but did not have enough time to address it, and my next appt isn't for another few weeks.
I am hoping someone else may have encountered and gotten past this, and would be willing to share what you did or how you got past this.
For the last few weeks, anytime my wife and I get intimate, I feel like my touch, or anything I do in participation is abusive.
The feeling is disturbing and is becoming limiting.
I don't want this to drag out too much as I have built up in my head that the longer this goes on the more difficult it will be to move past it.
I can understand the feeling is not a true representation of reality, intellectually, and have asked my wife to reinforce this by verbalizing and positively acknowledging my actions, but the background feeling is that I am abusing her.
Obviously this is connected to the abuse I suffered, but I don't seem to be able to get past this, and am now avoiding intimacy all together.
I mentioned this to my T last session but did not have enough time to address it, and my next appt isn't for another few weeks.
I am hoping someone else may have encountered and gotten past this, and would be willing to share what you did or how you got past this.

