For a long time, pop culture sold us a simple equation: intimacy = sex, and sex equals “having a life.”
But the most honest truth is messier—and way more relatable: a woman can go without sex for a long time… but going without safe closeness changes you. Not overnight.
So when people ask, “How long can a woman live without physical intimacy?” the real question is usually this:
How long can she live without being truly held—emotionally or physically—before something inside her stops reaching?
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