I Am Afraid I Have Intimacy Issues Stories of Experiences

I can't get close to anyone. I can't let them touch me, and it makes me uncomfortable if they stare too long. I don't like to be flirted with, I don't know how to respond. I dislike being touched, even when it's someone I know. I don't...

Reasons why I have not been the one (and dumped):
People don't share their hearts.
They close off.
Some treat me like a villain.
They only love the idea of being in love.
I am not their parent.
I know trust is hard to give, but I am not...

Sometimes people say they get brainfreeze eating icecream. I never get it in the head though, but in the back between my shoulderblades. It is kinda painfull, but it is not like I wanna touch the place while it hurt...

It's like that...

I'm 22 years old. I'm attractive, smart (when it comes to school), and friendly. All my life I have dealt with failure, rejection, bullying, and disappointment. I think because of that, i am very insecure with myself. I have never had a...

Maybe it's just me but the thought of being pushed away while being intimate with a woman...scares me.

It eats at me all the time that i cant get involved with people seeing how close they get and i wonder what i am missing out on its so extreme that i cant make eye contact with a girl there was this one time this girl wanted to date me...

i have never been in a proper relationship that has lasted over a month... whenever things start to look good or are going well, i find a reason to end the relationship, and the guys i choose are never really people i feel strongly for...

I'm not being a perv, I really like to meet or chat to a woman that loves pantyhose. A woman that is open minded about me loving to wear them and that is turned on by it. My town is small, with few pantyhose lovers. Ive only meet...

I am so frustrated, sad, confused, etc....  I'm having huge issues with intimacy and can't nail down why.  I recently discovered that I am okay with having sex with my husband but not with foreplay.  I don't want to do...

I am engaged to a woman whom I love very much.  She has issues of her own, but has come a long way and has worked very hard to survive and overcome.  The problem is that she says that I don't make her feel like a woman. ...

Hello, My name is Monique, a life long student of intimacy of - ahem - various types.  I am divorced and have a twenty four year old daughter.  Since i am divorced, does that qualify me to be an expert on intimacy?  ...

i am pretty sure I have intimacy issues, i want to avoid sex at all costs, and it scares me to death that i will be pressured for sex, and if i do have sex i will be direspected and disgarded afterwarsd,its happened before, and i...

I have come to learn about myself in the past few weeks that I have a real problem with intimacy and expressing the intimate feeling I have inside.  I instead tend to run and hide, and unfortunately isolate myself for the person I...

It's hard for me to tell others I LOVE them! Even friends and family. And especially my hubby. Why is this? I DON'T KNOW?? My parents were certainly not adverse to saying and showing Love to us kids growing up! My grandparents never let...

Whenever my boyfriend and I kiss...and I mean KISS, not some little lip action, but full-out tongue-twisting, groping, sprawled on the bed kiss...I get this panicky feeling deep inside my chest, constricting my breath, making me...