I wish I had known what a powerful glue oxytocin is much earlier in life.  It could have helped me connect more intimately with my husband much earlier in our marriage.  it also could have helped prevent me from "pair-bonding" so deeply with many other men beforehand.  Little did I know that sexual intimacy is like a clear strip of sticky packing tape, bonding us tightly to each other.  When that bond is broken, we lose physical, mental, emotional and spiritual fragments of our being to that person.  We are stuck with similar fragments of the other person, creating "baggage we carry around internally until we manage to sever those soul ties.  It becomes harder and harder to stay connected with another human being because we are so accustomed to breaking that bond over and over such that our "tape" is no longer sticky.

(Shannon Ethridge, Sexually Confident Wife, pg 26)

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