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Love and sex are healthy parts of being human. In fact, intimacy makes life rich and worthwhile. However, for many, there’s a dark side to the search for intimacy. Love and sex become distorted. Relationships that could once bring joy and pleasure now bring pain and despair. You feel defective. You wonder how you got here. You may attempt to re-create a particular relationship only to find yourself miserable and lonely again.

One client described her despair this way, “I just thought I was broken, that something was wrong with me. I had no idea there was a name for what I was doing romantically and that there might be a way to change. I desperately didn’t want to continue hurting myself and others, but I just thought it was my personality.”