DEIDRE SAYS: IT IS totally unreasonable of Emily to expect you to accept a relationship without intimacy.
Through physical touch and sexual connection, couples form a deeper relationship.
Sex helps our physical health, mood, outlook and sense of wellbeing so a good sexual communication in your relationship is important.
It can be easy to start relying on masturbation. But you both had therapy and moved through this, so either Emily has settled back into her comfortable ways, or there is a deeper block.
Consider going back to the same therapist, or perhaps you could contact the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (cosrt.org), which can put you in contact with a counsellor who can get to the bottom of this issue.
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