describes how motherhood changed her from “a hugger” who loved physical touch to someone who has not felt self-ownership over her body for six years. “All day my body belongs to another human being, and at the end of the day I am done being touched,” she says. Considering whether she might just force herself to be intimate with her husband, she says, “To lose myself to one more person would take away any control I do have over [my body].”
