Marcus had been feeling the rejection for months. "I used to reach for her. I used to try. But after enough 'not tonights' and turned backs... I just stopped," Marcus said.
"After reading that Reddit post about couples who 'love each other but don't touch anymore'... I knew that was us. We'd go to bed like strangers. I'd lay there wondering if she even found me attractive anymore. She'd lay there wondering why I stopped trying. Neither of us said a word. I gotta say, when I finally admitted how much this was killing me at 2:14 AM, little did I know what I was in store for.
There are so many solutions people suggest but nothing actually worked. 'Just talk about it.' Every time we tried, it turned into tension or a fight. 'Initiate more.' I couldn't handle another rejection. 'Give it time.' Time was making it worse." Marcus went on to say, "After the first night playing Connecting™, I was genuinely shocked. I knew it had questions and dares and so on... BUT, I never imagined we'd go from cold silence to actually touching each other again. The cards made the first move for us. Nobody had to risk rejection. Nobody had to beg.
I've been playing with Sarah for 6 weeks now and for the first time in forever, I feel wanted again. Not just loved—actually desired. She reaches for me now. I reach for her. That wall we built is gone. I can't believe we almost lost everything because we were both too hurt and too proud to break the cycle. I'm never going back to that coldness."
And that's just Marcus's experience. There are over 100,000 satisfied couples just like Marcus and Sarah.