Private psychological experiences
Breakup grief does not always reduce your libido. Sometimes desire gets much stronger. Here is why your body may suddenly want sex, touch and physical release after a relationship ends.
You can know a relationship needed to end and still deeply miss the sex, touch and familiarity that came with it. That physical loss is part of breakup grief too.
Knowing a relationship is harmful does not always make leaving feel easy. Learn how attachment, intermittent reinforcement, hope and emotional relief can keep someone pulled back into the same cycle.
Turning an ex into a friend with benefits can feel like keeping the best part of the relationship. But sex with someone you once loved is rarely emotionally neutral.