Quote From: rmt081207Hi everyone, 
 
I'm new to this board but I have been searching for somewhere to vent out what I'm feeling and see if anyone has any advice for me. My husband has this fantasy of wanting to see me have sex with another man while he watches and then joins in. This I am TOTALLY uncomfortable with and will not do for him. My values on marriage and the marriage bed are very different from his. I feel that when you marry that is the person you share your whole being with, no one else. He doesn't feel that way and actually would like me to become part of the swinger lifestyle he once was a part of. He has been at me for a couple of years now over this and I feel it has come to a point where we may end up splitting because he just won't let it go. I have tried asking what else we can do to try and satisfy this "urge" he says will never go away. He tells me nothing will satisfy it but that. Just to clarify, I knew of his past when we met however, he has not done that since we met. I told him then that it was not something I would do and that he needed to understand a decide if he could live with that. At the time he told me he was over that lifestyle and that it was a "young" thing. About a year after we married he started to bring it up slowly and casually. Then about a year and a half ago it became like this constant thing for him. I can't take it and I feel so hurt by him not excepting how I feel and leaving it be. Now I deal with whether he will cheat for this reason, can I trust him? The hurt in my heart is becoming unbarable and I'm angry, very angry. I have so much more to say but I will leave it for another time. If anyone has every been in this situation or has any kind of advice or just kind words, I would love to hear it. 
 
Thanks, 
R* 
It's some how comforting to see that there are others out there who are feeling the same way that I am. My partner does not want sex, ever, not with me anyways. I do feel all of the things that previous posters have confided. I, too, am lonely and most of all I feel horribly rejected. We have not had sex for months now and this is so common that I don't even consider taking note of the last time we had it. On the rare occassion that it does happen it is horrible, mechanical and it seems that he just wants to get off. He, too, has mentioned threesomes which I am not willing to engage in.
As a result I am no longer attracted to him and the lack of sex has become an underlying problem that effects our entire relationship. I often get angry and feel so terribly alone that my moods swing more than I care to admit.
We have discussed this ad nauseum and neither one of us is willing to talk about it any more, talking gets us nowhere and so what isn't resolved gets worse.
I am attractive and men do approach me quite often so there is a great temptation for me to step out but I refuse to do so knowing that it won't solve anything.
So, I remain in an empty relationship and it's effecting every area of my life.
Last week I asked my partner to bring something to the bathroom for me and I answered the door naked. He simply handed me what I requested and looked at my feet. I felt so rejected and now I vacillate between feeling rejected and being really angry. Of course no one else knows this most personal pain and because it's effecting my moods and my partner is such a nice guy people do not understand my sadness.
Previously, I was married to a man who could not get enough of me, in that manner, and I miss him terribly because of my unfulfilled needs. This just makes things even worse.
My partner has little to no emotion regarding anything. He is very stoic and his moods are almost non-existent. I believe that he has a problem and that the problem isn't about me at all but living with it is obviously going to effect me.