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We Made Eye Contact and I Sobbed:

We Made Eye Contact and I Sobbed:

A Midlife Love Story

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Allie Theiss, MSc CSC ABS
Jul 17, 2025
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We Made Eye Contact and I Sobbed:
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This isn’t my love story.
It’s one my client lived—and one that cracked me wide open too.

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She’s 52. Divorced for almost a decade. Successful, independent, funny as hell. And completely shut down when it came to intimacy.

“I don’t do eye contact during sex,” she told me in one of our early sessions. “It’s too much. It feels…

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