Why did you feel unable to tell Freya your anxiety is acute right now, that it’s having an impact on your sex life?” I meet Freya’s eyes. “I didn’t want to burden her. Freya already supports me so much. I just…I tried to focus on taking care of it, rather than placing more on her shoulders.” “You could have told her and been working on it,” Dr. Dietrich says. And thick silence hangs in the room. But then I would have had to admit…everything. What anxiety was doing to my body, how far it was taking me from her. “I think…” I clear my throat roughly. “I think I was scared to admit it to myself,
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