if you take it as a rejection, yeah it sucks. But if you take it as your partner is communicating something they need and taking steps to protect themselves then it's just the same emotional burden as someone saying yeah today's Tuesday.
Your partner isn't rejecting you, they're taking steps to...
18 years since having satisfying sex with a competent partner.
13 years since any sort of intimacy with my partner
10 years since I last tried to initiate any sort of intimacy. He got mad with me, complaining "why do you always need..." I decided in that moment whatever it was I needed, I would...