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How to Fix the Real HSP Reason You’re Not Intimate With Your Partner
Why don’t you feel comfortable enough to be with your partner? Is it the kids? Your stressful job? Your body image? A lack of together-time?
Well, the culprit may be closer than you think.
Without a bedroom setting ripe for romantic encounters your HSP self falls entrapped in a rut. But you don’t have to get away to exotic places to fix this problem area.
Follow these tips to get you back on the right sensory tracks.
Textures
Softness isn’t negotiable, especially for HSPs — itchy or uncomfortable fabrics, no thank you. Often the microfiber sheets feel a bit suffocating in the summer.
But that’s just the beginning. The nails on a chalkboard irritation to the HSP is their strong snotty feel.
On the other hand, thin, scratchy sheets don’t lay right on your body. My wife explained:
“You know how you can put a sheet around you and it feels kind of comforting? (This low count sheet isn’t like that.) I like to feel like a sheet has its arms around me like a cool, weighted blanket.”
