Desire: What it is, How it Works & How to Regain it Post Cancer

What are relational brakes?

  • Aspects of the relationship may also affect cancer survivors’ response to desire
  • Relational brakes include:
    • Partner shifts into caregiver role over sexual partner
    • Loss of spontaneity (more time and energy put into intimacy than before)
    • Feelings of disconnection or disappointing partner