Chronic Sex

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I had hit a low point with my partner, feeling undesirable as my chronic pain and invisible illness symptoms gained a new foothold in my life and created a skewed view of myself. As a dry spell drew out longer and longer, we both had our abundance of worries — Will it hurt? How will it hurt? What can we do to be prepared for pain or injury? This is a typical life of someone who lives with disabilities and the people who intimately love them, so I went on a hunt for…