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Old Dec 04, 2016, 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Heartpony123 View Post
I am 18 years old and I have been with my boyfriend for about 3 years. For almost the entirety of that time I have been having sexual fantasies about his father. I don't know how to feel about it, and I feel like I'm crazy. Every time I'm near him I can't talk because I feel like I might say something that might tell him how I feel. Essentially I turn mute. I'm scared because I love my boyfriend and I just want these fantasies to go away.
Try the paradoxical approach: invite those fantasies and look at them, with or without masturbation. If you stop forbidding them, they might eventually cede on their own. Clearly what you have been doing so far has not been successful, so why not try an opposite approach.
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