Hi ladies, I've been reading this thread for awhile now and I would like to share my experience on overcoming the difficulties of having penetrative sex.
I don't know if I truly had vaginismus but I suspected I had a mild form of it.
I didn't have much experience when it comes to relationships. So when I met my boyfriend (my hubby now) in my late-20s, he was my first (I was a late bloomer...lolx).
After having been together for awhile, I felt comfortable enough to try having intercourse with him. He wasn't a virgin so he knew what to do.
However when he tried to penetrate me, we realised I wasn't penetrable...I was too tight and tense down there. Even his finger cannot enter me. The pain was just unbearable and we decided to stop.
It felt like my body was bracing itself for the pain to come when he penetrates that my body just tensed up and refused him entry even though I tried to relax my muscles
Over the next 2 years, we tried many times to have penetrative sex but it wasn't possible.
Sometimes his finger can enter me (though I felt uncomfortable), but his brotherhood can't. At most only a small tip of his brotherhood is able to enter me, any more it gives me a burning sensation pain and I have to stop him. I've lost count the number of times I broke down in front of him after the failed attempts and I kept asking him what if I'm really impenetrable even after we got married!!!
But he was always assuring me that if after marriage we are still having problems, we can always seek medical help.
Thinking back, I really have to give him a lot of credits for his encouragements and perseverance...lolx
He kept reminding me that all these fears/blockages are in my mind. I need to keep telling myself I want to be penetrated and I want to have intercourse.
Which I think it's true that you need to overcome the fears/blockages in the head.
I think my fear/blockage was due to the fact that I wasn't married at that time, and having intercourse while unmarried is kinda taboo (I'm old-fashioned!...lolx) and I was worried of getting pregnant.
However, I clearly remember the day we had our first successful penetrative sex.
I remember feeling very horny that day and very turned on (forgot what caused me to become like this

)
At that instant, I really wanted to be penetrated. Somehow the overwhelming feeling made the pain tolerable.
I was on top of him and was lowering myself slowly...cm by cm. I kept going even though the burning pain was there. Perhaps mind-over-body, I managed to sit on him completely after sometime and we made it happened. I felt so relieved then but I was also worried what if this is a once-off success?
So the next time we tried, he made sure to turn me on very well and I kept reminding myself I want the intercourse to happen.
From then on, we started having normal intercourses. But it's a rule of thumb that we must start off with me on top to warm up/relax my body.
We got married last year and are now expecting our first child.
So to the ladies here, please don't believe you are impenetrable.
Keep trying and try to overcome the fears/blockages in your mind. You can overcome this. Good luck!!!