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Tell Me About It: The problem here is that the concept of sex for pleasure is being missed, which is what you want to achieve: the retraining of your body to expect and receive pleasure
Tell Me About It: Is love sometimes not enough when we both want different locations to settle down in?
Tell Me About It: As with all our familial relationships, we need to move from our childhood patterns into more adult connections and this usually only happens when we are forced to do so
I found history on my partner’s laptop that tells me she has been having sex with other people. I’m traumatised
Tell Me About It: The school your granddaughter attends should have a complaints procedure
Tell Me About It: There is a saying that resentment is like ‘taking poison and expecting the other person to die’
Tell Me About It: I have no friends nor any acquaintances, no one ever contacts me, nor vice versa, and I never socialise
Tell Me About It: Loneliness is a fundamental human emotion and one reason it may be so intense is in order to push us into breaking out of our safety zones and taking the risk of connecting with another person
Tell Me About It: 'Some friends say that I have it all, but I feel my life is boring and unfulfilled'
Tell Me About It: Take responsibility for creating a life that takes everyone’s needs into account
Tell Me About It: The love of my life told me she was not coming back. I keep switching from feeling normal, sometimes even positive about my future, to feeling profound despair
Tell Me About It: Being there for her, bearing witness to her struggle and always believing her is crucial to your colleague’s wellbeing
Tell Me About It: ‘I’m proud I have rebuilt my life and realised my life ambitions, but worry my sister is left behind’
Tell Me About It: Surround yourself with good people, do things that give you joy or fulfilment and do not let your love be contaminated by fear or despair
Tell Me About It: This issue is not new and teasing it out might be possible with the support of a psychosexual therapist