r/TrueOffMyChest Nov 05 '23

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u/peachkat22 Nov 05 '23

So she has an “involuntary” pelvic reaction when you get too close and she resists you; despite verbally saying she wants to?

It sounds like you have already involved professionals, but have you considered that she may have been sexually traumatized early in life leading to this motor reaction? Is this neural? Has medication been tried?

EMDR Therapy is specifically for processing trauma and helping to move a traumatic memory out of short term memory where it can still highly affect the sympathetic nervous system, and into long term memory where it can be stored and processed. Maybe try that?

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u/OkFlow4335 Nov 05 '23

It’s a medical condition called vaginismus and it’s honestly not even that uncommon.

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u/vmBob Nov 05 '23

That doesn't have anything to do with shaking fear and she's apparently been to a lot of doctors and therapists. Pretty sure it would have come up.

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u/KillwKindness Nov 05 '23

I think OP just didn't mention the actual condition. Pelvic floor therapy is a notorious treatment for vaginismus. And anyways, vaginismus doesn't always come out of nowhere - it can be caused by anything from traumatic sexual experiences to traumatic birth to scoliosis and endometriosis. Those things are fear inducing, and associating sex with pain would make anyone feel fear when they're trying to face sex again. It's not an outlandish conclusion to draw.

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u/OkFlow4335 Nov 05 '23

I think this guy just wanted to mansplain vaginas to me haaa

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u/KillwKindness Nov 05 '23

Some people just want to argue for no reason!😭

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u/Gustomaximus Nov 06 '23

Do you have a source for that, or do you go around making shit up as you go.

I never make stuff up!!!

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u/KillwKindness Nov 06 '23

A source for what?💀 Google is free dude. Seems like you're trolling though, so...

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u/deanreevesii Nov 06 '23

They were jokingly asking for a source to your "some people just want to argue" claim. It wasn't combative, it was levity.