Seventeen Years Without Touch: Loving a Woman Whose Body Remembers Violence

Most marriages struggle with communication.Some struggle with finances.A few struggle with trust.But what happens when a marriage struggles with touch itself?On my wedding night, I expected the beginning of intimacy with the woman I loved.Instead, I encountered something I did not understand - a body that froze in fear.Years later, I learned the truth: the woman I married was carrying the invisible scars of sexual trauma.What followed was a seventeen-year journey marked by confusion, patience, faith, loneliness, and ultimately, healing.Seventeen Years Without Touch is a deeply honest memoir about: - loving someone whose body remembers violence- the emotional toll of sexual silence in marriage- faith, endurance, and the struggle to stay- and the possibility of rebuilding intimacy after traumaThis is not just a story about pain.It is a story about the kind of love that refuses to leave.