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WonderWomanOP
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Boyfriend feeling unwanted and unloved
Relationship Stress / by WonderWomanOP
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 March 11th, 2024
...See more So I've been in my current relationship for 7 almost 8 years. I have major depression and social anxiety and ptsd from childhood sexual trauma. I'm pregnant now and my boyfriend feels neglected because I don't want to be intimate anywhere near as often as we used to. There's financial stress added on to that and then trying to get everything ready for the baby is just all overwhelming. He tells me that he doesn't feel wanted and that sometimes it feels like I resent him. I just don't understand the need for physical intimacy to feel wanted or loved. There are days that I don't really want affection and sometimes I don't even want to be touched and I feel like this hurts him. It didn't used to be like this. I'm not sure what changed for me except getting older and having to face my trauma more. I don't know what to do anymore. My relationship is strained no matter what I do. I can't just force myself to do things like this for him or I would. If I could make him want it less I feel like there would be less strain but I can't change that about him either.
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