Sentences with phrase «fear of intimacy result»

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Fears of intimacy and commitment, thought to be results of divorce, are in fact phenomena often experienced by children who grew up in disturbed intact families.

I do individual and group work with men dealing with an intimacy disorder which can result in sexual addiction behaviors (porn, compulsive masturbation, affairs, prostitutes etc) as a way to avoid relational pain — fear of being hurt by anyone who knows them; this includes fear of relational vulnerability, fear of being known, fear of being rejected and fear of being abandoned.

Sexual anorexia is manifested as a result of trauma and is seen when one may demonstrate behaviors related to fear of intimacy or an underlying social phobia.

At that moment, realize that all of the bullshit that has led you to marriage counseling in the first place might be the result of your own fear of vulnerability, lack of control, and emotional intimacy — and that life is far too short to muddy it up with the muck of petty fighting that no one will remember a year or even a week from today.