I've read your threads, starting with the SSM ones, Charlie Brown, sorry you've had to go thru all that early struggle, and now THIS! I listened to a psychologist speaking on the radio not long ao, who said that he thinks one of the best predictors of whether a person will be able to face his or her changing body and life expectations at mid life, or go into a full blown crisis including EAs and/or PAs, is the fact of whether or not he or she had 2 or 3 relationships during their teen years. He said that falling in love and having one's heart broken during this formative period is important to the development of a strong, healthy sexual identity. And if the person had an unresolved problem back then, he or she will have to live thru it and face it later in life.

Maybe your poor W had some kind of problem or experience during her formative years that turned her off to sex in general, and now to this obsession with the tattooed wonder?

No matter if it is an obsession, an EA or a PA, it all hurts!