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Created on : Friday, July 01, 2005, 05:17:33 pm
Author : dataimport
"He wants it twice a day!" "She would be happy to go a whole month without touching me." Does this sound familiar?

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March 9, 2006, 9:52 am PST

sexless in jersey

i understand things come up,but my wife has not had sex with me for 6 months now,and im pretty pissed about it.she had surgery on her knee in september,but shesback to normal,she cheated on me for a long time,supposedly its over but after 6 months i doubt it is,i love my wife and kids but shes 28 im 32 and i have needs as well,divorce is not my plan,but i guess alls fair in love and war.
 
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March 9, 2006, 10:03 am PST

Differing Sex Drives

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i understand things come up,but my wife has not had sex with me for 6 months now,and im pretty pissed about it.she had surgery on her knee in september,but shesback to normal,she cheated on me for a long time,supposedly its over but after 6 months i doubt it is,i love my wife and kids but shes 28 im 32 and i have needs as well,divorce is not my plan,but i guess alls fair in love and war.
I know some of what you are going through.  My advice is to get out of there, before you do something that you regret.  Leaving your kids is very tough, I know firsthand, but honestly you need to be healthy.  From there you can handle emotions better and get a decent life strategy.  Otherwise you will continue to be pissed, do something you regret, and take that much longer to heal.  What you decide to do from here on out will have a huge impact on your life, either positively or negatively.  It is not fair to be in this place, I know.  Good luck       
 
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March 9, 2006, 10:33 am PST

Differing Sex Drives

Yes, this sounds very familiar to me!  I believe that males have a high sex drive.  Sometimes women may have a high sex drive too, but not as often as males.  A woman can go some time without having sexual intercourse at all and it won't bother her.  On the other hand, some males act like they can't live without it.  Some males will go overboard and cheat just because they can't get any from their wife/girlfriend.  That is a shame. 

 
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March 9, 2006, 1:19 pm PST

Me again.

We definantly talk we talk a lot. She wants to have childeren 2 infact (how thats going to happen i don't know!) Yes your correct in your assumption NOTHING I have not had sex with her at all ever not even on the honeymoon! I do not do well with being subtle it has never been a quality of mine. I tend to speak exactly what is going on in my mind short of makeing acusations or being flat out rude. I am honestly starting to loose my interest and attraction to her I have not conveyed that to her but i have asked how long she expects me to be a good patient loyal husband. She did express concern about getting pregnent right now because she wants to wait untill i leave the military because she wants a more stable household and not worry about me so much. I have no problem at all with using condoms I am well versed in proper use of them (managed to not get 1 girlfriend pregnent throughout high school or college never even 1 pregnancy scare). Even if she did get pregnent now it would just be a earlier start to a family then we expected. I think she is just so uncomforitable with the idea of sex that she can not get herself to do it. She is attracted to me i know that much and I am not horrible when it comes to intamacy because she gets turned on enough to grind with me she just can't seem to get the courage to get naked and go the whole way. What we do do is fun but she doesnt seem to understand that anything short of sex just isnt't sex and there is a definant differance in the feeling of it. She has even had the nerve to ask me why i don't just use my hand and stop bothering her! 

 
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March 9, 2006, 1:57 pm PST

Women want it too

It's not just the men that require it all the time, some women do too.  I let my husband know I would like to make love once a day, well needless to say I'll be lucky if it's once every 4 days.  He just wants to cuddle some nights which is fine but, he turns me on and it's hard for me just to cuddle.  He should be in his prime, and I don't know too many married couples that wife is willing and ready to have sex with their husbands all the time.  We go to sleep angry all the time because he is falling asleep and I am trying to get it started.
 
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March 9, 2006, 2:01 pm PST

love and war?

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i understand things come up,but my wife has not had sex with me for 6 months now,and im pretty pissed about it.she had surgery on her knee in september,but shesback to normal,she cheated on me for a long time,supposedly its over but after 6 months i doubt it is,i love my wife and kids but shes 28 im 32 and i have needs as well,divorce is not my plan,but i guess alls fair in love and war.
Why do you feel like it's war?  What did you do the period of time she cheated, or did you find out it lasted a long time?
 
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March 9, 2006, 3:02 pm PST

Differing Sex Drives

this might sound horrible and im sure im gonna catch hell but what about getting her drunk and talking her into it that way 

or - and im sure all guys are bad about this- but are you like really big or something and its scaring her? 

on the preg thing if you use a condom and she gets on birth control she should feel secure enough to not worry about pregnancy 

if nothing else - if youre getting to the annulment point- give her an ultimatum- if not couple marriage counseling will she talk to someone alone? maybe theres something she doenst want you to know- something shes embarrassed about 

 
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March 9, 2006, 4:00 pm PST

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I'm a 20 year old wife as well. I know how hard it can be to manage sex and taking care of the kids and the house and everything else that we have chosen at such a young age. Possibly part of your problem with sex is that you are stressed. Stress decreases sex drive. And believe me i know that being sucha young wife and mother is STRESSFUL!  But sex is important to your relationship. ( at the risk of sounding like Dr. Phil) It brings a close-ness and togetherness between you that nothing else can. It's like for that little bit of time, there is nothing in the world more important than the 2 of you. and having that connection is so important to maintaining a healthy strong marriage.

 I know what you are going throught I am to a mother of four and I am 26 and have been married to my husband for almost four yrs. I take care of all the bills and kids and cleaning and cooking and ariens and appointments and on top of that I go to work at 1am to 4am. My husband thinks about sex all the time and talks about it all the time. We almost always get into fight about not having sex and if it is not that were fighting about then were fighting about bills and money. I to have a bad habit of pushing my husband away when he is trying to love on me cause I think then he is going to turn it into something sexual instead of just cuddling. He always tells me that their somthing wrong with me or he says he never gets it at all. We have sex once a week. when we first got togther we had sex every night. So just to let you know it is not just you that feels this way  

                                                                                                                                               chelsea 

 
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March 9, 2006, 9:12 pm PST

Can't do anything about it right now

This has been a topic of conversation in my marriage for years.  I have a low sex drive.  A lot of it has been medications I've had to take.  He has a high sex drive.  Add into the mix the fact that last year I started getting migraines with sex.  Right now I can't have sex because I had surgery a week ago.  And all I've heard this week is about how we aren't having sex.  I can do some things about that--but not a lot.  I'm ready to start screaming at him--leave me alone until Easter.  I can't have sex until then.  I have the migraines under better control and I was doing some things to increase my sex drive--using the use it or lose it concept.  Talking myself into wanting to whether I did or not.  Making it a priority, because my marriage is a priority.  But now he's giving me a really hard time when I can do NOTHING about it.  I'm very frustrated right now.    My fear is I'll be getting divorce papers before it's all said and done.
 
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March 9, 2006, 11:47 pm PST

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I unfortunately am just like the woman on the show today who would cry during sex.  To me sex has always been about my partner's power over me when I am in a vulnerable position.  I dread sex constantly and try to avoid it.  I even avoid being intimate in other ways because of the fear that sex will be what is expected next.  It isn't fair to him and he often complains.  I know it makes him feel horrible when I turn him down but I am scared out of my mind.  Any advice that might help?
i am no pro for certain but from the little i do know about psycology you might have some very deep seeded issues that should be worked out with a very good therapist. Sex is NOT about controll or domination or any such things. Sex is or at least should be a enjoyable show of affection between 2 loveing consenting people. If to you it is all about controll or being donminated and surpressed and you can not shake that thought you need to seek help so that someone can show you the light on what sex is really about and you can learn to enjoy it.
 
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