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===== 1. Stop trying to earn affection that has already been refused. =====
This is important. Continuing to initiate when it is always rebuffed deepens the wound and reinforces a power imbalance you didn’t choose.

That doesn’t mean becoming cold.
It means withdrawing from the cycle that is harming you.
# There must be an adult conversation that is not about sex—but about survival.
Not “we need to have sex,” but something closer to:

: 

If she shuts that down again, that tells you something crucial—not about her worth, but about the limits of this relationship as it currently exists.
# You need a place where your truth is allowed to exist.
A therapist. A counselor. A trusted confidant. Somewhere this isn’t bottled up.

Keeping this locked inside is how people make choices they later regret—not because they’re bad, but because they’re desperate.