Just a quick win I wanted to share.
So last weekend night I went to this girlâs house.
I was hard, I even got 5mg cialis in case a few hours before in order to be able to perform.
We started with kissing and foreplay, but actually when she got naked I wasnât that attracted to her and probably lost some libido.
Then when we switched to foreplay I started going soft,and I felt my body shutting down and my inner critic got louder with thoughts like:
âI am getting soft even with cialis, I am broken, this is a serious problemâ
âSince I got soft itâs game over tonight, I wonât get it hard againâ
âShe will think I am a weirdo and that I have some deep issuesâ
Luckily I got aware of these thoughts after a bit and I was able to self-sooth myself with more self-compassionate and self-acceptance statements like âItâs ok, you are not brokenâ etc, and it helped calming me down.
So we just stayed there cuddling, maybe it helped also that she was fine with it, and didnât say anything about me being soft, but she was also pretty inexperienced.
So after a bit of chilling there and cuddling I got hard again, and the inner critic was silent.
So we got back into foreplay, but since she was pretty inexperienced, we didnât have any penetrative sex, and then just went to sleep.
But yeah, didnât have sex but it partially feels like a success story, since I avoided to spiral into excessive negative self talk and the usual toxic shame.
I still felt a bit concerned the day later because it happened even with the cialis, and it made me realise that now itâs like a learned habit.. the trigger of going foreplay to avout to have sex⌠or going from the sofa to the bed shuts my body down and kills my libido and boner.