Topic : Is This Normal?

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Created on : Friday, July 01, 2005, 05:19:40 pm
Author : dataimport
Your partner asked you to do WHAT? Some things are taboo. Some things are common but just not discussed. Where does your sex life fit in?

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September 4, 2008, 6:00 am PDT

Is This Normal?

Quote From: wendyo33

 I have been with my partner for 9 years. We have a pretty harmonious and honest relationship. I was never particularly physically attracted to him (the chemistry between us was more emotional than physical), but we have a nice sexual connection and we get along really well. Every so often though when we're engaged sexually, I find myself feeling repulsed. In the past few months this has increased to the point that I have to struggle to keep back tears. He's not bad looking, is fit, healthy, etc., so that doesn't explain it. I can't figure out if it's because of a lack of chemistry between us, or if maybe I'm just having a bad reaction to sex in general. I kind of wonder if some subconscious stuff is surfacing? I'm 40 and don't have any conscious recollection of having been exposed to sexual abuse, but sometimes I wonder. If I lived in a place where I could go find a good therapist I would, but unfortunately I don't so can't. I don't feel like I can tell my partner about feeling repulsed and I'm beginning to feel a bit desperate. In the past I've gone months avoiding having sex with him. My sex drive seems to have increased recently so we're having sex more often but about one time in three I end up feeling repulsed. It seems to me that this isn't normal. What to do?

I don't know if you read what you wrote but the second line is

"I was never particularly physically attracted to him."

So your not attracted to him & forcing yourself to have sex with him. Of course your going to be fighting back tears. I don't know how old you are but it sounds like you are dying to have some good sex with someone you are lusting for.

What to do?

You need to break up with him, if he is such a good guy he deserves to be with someone who is attracted to him, by fooling him you are not only robbing yourself of fulfilling sex lift, your robbing him of being with someone who really wants to be with him.

Don't fool yourself that because you have a emotional connaction thats enough for a relationship. Thats only part of it. You deserve to be fullfilled, & so does he.

Attraction is not something you can fix in councling, it is or it isn't.

 
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September 4, 2008, 6:07 am PDT

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Quote From: fire_fly_lady

Just looking for some feed back.

A few mo's ago my husband and I were fighting and it looked like he was leaving me for good.

I found out about A week later that he had called up my daughter 25 who is married if he could be with her sexually he said some creepy things and she flipped out. Of course however he blamed it on being drunk and he pleated with me to be able to work things out with me.

I agreed to but by doing that I have ruined any normal relationship with my daughter.

What to do. Make it work or not?

any ideas? am I a creep?

Yes, what you did was wrong. Thats your child. I don't care if she was 95. Thats your baby girl that your husband just asked to have sex with. Forget it's just "talk" he was trying to act on that talk. So he thinks so little of you that he would try to have sex with your baby girl. Thats a sick man, & you deserve better. Your child needs to know that even though she is 25 you are still her mommy & can still protect her, at the least from the sexual advances of her own husband.

 
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September 4, 2008, 6:16 am PDT

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Quote From: lucy_inthesky

After a long day at work last night I came home to find a picture of my 18 year old sister in the bathroom. When I saw it I kiddingly told my husband, "This is disturbing to find my sister's picture in the bathroom." But he didn't laugh and suddenly admitted that he had masturbated to her picture. I was so shocked and didn't know what to say so I stayed in our room last night without really talking to him about it. We've been married for five years and we've been together for a total of ten years. I know it's normal for guys to masturbate and to fantasize, but fantasizing about my own sister, who is like 12 years younger than he is? I don't know what to do. It's hard for me to look at him right now because I'm so disgusted. What do you think?

You know, as I do, that most of the dirty stuff we think stays in our heads, in the intrest of getting along we keep all that to ourselves. So I'm sure you see what I'm getting at here. He could masturbate all he wants & think of her, heck he could be thinking of her when you two are having sex, there is no way you could ever know, no way to ever find out, no way to prove anything.

Why did he have to use the picture. Why did he leave it in the bathroom where he KNEW you would find it. Why did he admit to using at at a wank tool when he could have laughed it off with you. Thats a serious attack on you as a woman, on your age, on you sexualty. Thats saying some nasty stuff about him. Get him into councling if you want to find out all the rest of the nasty things he has done, & belive me he has, leaving out the picture is just going to be the tip of the iceburg.

 
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September 4, 2008, 6:22 am PDT

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Quote From: catering000

I have been married two years. My husband is affectionate. Loves to hold hands, put his arm around me etc...But when it comes to long passionate kisses and sex...he is very timid. We have averaged sex appx once a week since getting married however it was like scheduled sex, the same day everyweek, early morning etc...If  I tried to initiate sex inbetween the one day a week I get eye rolling like a kid, hissing, and remarks like dont touch me, I am not in the mood....When I try to kiss him passionately he withdraws from the kiss before I do..Now I am noticing that our sex is turning into every two weeks and right now it has been 3 weeks, the longest ever. He does not have any physical problem. If I can get past his "I'm not in the mood" everything works perfect. He says he is very happy and loves me. He can not imagine life without me. I know he is not cheating...there are no signs of cheating here. But if he loves me, why can he not see how hurt I am by this behavior and feeling of worry? I have never been in a realtionship where the man is not in the mood alot. He does drink alot of beer and sometimes prefers to sit in bed and do this while watching TV then to put it down and make love to me instead...I do not know what to do, he will not go to counseling and I am taking this extremely personal. I am attractive and fit and even his male peers constantly tell him how lucky he is to have me..They wish they could have me, but my husband does and pushes me away constantly. ANY ADVICE?

Wanting to drink rather then hump your young hot wife, old hot wife, or any type of wife at all says that he has a problem with booze. Making everything about the fact he says when & where you two have sex is a control issue. Dude needs some councling. You deserve better, & if he refuses to go to councling with you about it you need to figure our how you can leave him.
 
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September 4, 2008, 6:26 am PDT

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Quote From: jinnyhere

Hello...

I have been married for 1 & 1/2 year now. After marriage we were together for only 10 days. In that period we didnt had sex. After 10 days he came to US. & then after 1 year I came & joined him. for 4 months we were together but in that period also we didnt had sex. now again because of my job we are living at 2 different places. I asked him the reason then he told me that he had some tension & because of that he was not able to concentrate on sex life. I am going back after 10-15 days & now  he is assuring me our sexlife will be very good. we will enjoy every moment. but still I am worried. & many thoughts are coming in my mind. please help me.

Let it happen naturaly.

In the time you were appart he may have been engaging in high risk sexual behavors & was worried to explain that to you & expose you? He may be sure of himself now.

If this sexless life continues then talk to him & see a councler.

good luck

 
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September 4, 2008, 6:34 am PDT

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Quote From: tazzmarsh

How do you deal with a husband that does not participate during sex.  He does not want to initiate it, that is up to me, ("to show me that you want to").  Sex is ALWAYS the same, he stands in front of me until I ask what he wants, he says "Sex, unles you dont want to", then I have to wait while he showers, then he lays on the bed flat on his back and waits for me to get on top, do all the work (when I say all the work I mean kissing, touching, moving, etc.) while he lays there and does nothing, not even lifting his hands.  He does not try to kiss me, touch me, or even move.  I have asked him if he is going to participate and he says he thought he was.  Then we finish with me giving him oral sex, as soon as he is finished he jumps up and cleans himself off. He does not insert his tongue in my mouth when kissing me.  He does not give me oral sex, he does not participate in foreplay.  He wants to "peck" at me all the time but most of the time he misses my mouth and when he does hit my mouth he barely kisses me.  I have talked to him about all of this over and over and he just says that he doesnt know what I am talking about.  I have asked him to do ANYTHING different in the bedroom,  because I have a problem with my having to do everything.  We are currently at a standoff regarding sex.  We have been married for  5 years, it is the second marriage for both of us.

 

We have both been married once before, me for 21 years and he for 13 years.  I was divorced for 4 years and he was divorced for 10 years.

WHAT!!!!???

Okay, I can tell from the years added up in your post that your a women in your prime & you should know better then to enter into a yucky sex marrage. So I'm going to assume that he was not like thins when you guys where dating, because if he was, what did you expect to happen, magical change? Anyway...

This guy is gross. Issues with sex being dirty, has to shower BEFORE & clean off after. Wont touch your jucy mouth, your lovely wet place, JERK! Seems scared of his own seed. I just hate this guy...

He can't even place a peck on your mouth?!?

 

Thats really messed up. You two need councling so bad. I wonder what else you two are at a stand off about.

Dump himif he refuses to go to councling. That is NOT NORMAL.

 

 
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September 4, 2008, 6:37 am PDT

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ps: "show me that you want it"

I'm outraged, so controling, he basicly has you as a slave to empty himself into. "Beg for it, beg to be degraded"

Because thats really degrading & you should not be put in that place by the man who is suppose to be your best friend.

 
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September 4, 2008, 6:49 am PDT

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Quote From: pennywidmore

Hey all,

Thanks in advance for your input.  I've been dating my BF for a year and a half, and we have a fantastic relationship and awesome sex life.  We've had maybe four or five small disagreements the entire time we've been dating, but those were all small, unimportant, and resolved within a few minutes -- and none have ever been about sex.

Until now.

Yesterday during sex my BF called me the five-letter word for a female dog (don't want to get my post removed for typing the actual word, LOL).  I was -- and still am -- shocked.  First of all, I'm openly feminist and take extreme issue with people using words that twist female sexuality into something negative or degrading.  Second, I recently cut off a male friend for calling me the same word like fivef times in a two minute span for simply being assertive during a disagreement, and my BF was supportive of me and said he couldn't believe anyone would ever use that about anyone, let alone someone they care about.  And yet, not even two months later, my BF used the word during sex with the woman he is supposedly in love with.

I told my BF that if he ever calls me that or anything similar ever again, we're done.  We discussed it for about half an hour, and he was pretty upset, tearing up and not looking at me.  He apologized and said that "it just came out", that he doesn't know why he said it, but that as soon as he said it he knew it was wrong.  Yet, if I wouldn't have said anything about it -- I did so about ten minutes afterwards because I wasn't sure if I had misheard him saying "hips" or not -- he wouldn't have said anything to me about it or apologized, etc. 

I feel really upset and betrayed by the whole thing.  I feel weird touching him now (we spent the rest of the day together, like seven hours) -- we touched three times and each time it made my skin crawl.  I literally got physically nauseous after we kissed when he left, and it was just a quick peck on the lips, not even the normal passionate kissing.  At this point I can't even imagine being sexually intimate with him again -- and it's not like I'm inhibited, I'm VERY open sexually, moreso than my BF is, especially when we first started dating.  I just feel like a line was crossed, and I'm scared we can't fix it.  I've been on the verge of tears since it happend like 24 hours ago.  Am I overreacting?  Is this type of thing normal for guys?  Is my reaction normal?  I've been with a number of guys since I started dating 11 years ago but have never dealt with anything of this nature before -- and never expected to either.  Any advice or comments or help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading!

You know, I would like to think you are over reacting. But you made it clear to him this was an issue word for you, that you would not tolarate it in any fashion & thats what the problem is. But you have to lookat form another stand point, stuff just comes out during sex, we make weird noises, grunt & moan, hoot & holler. Have you never said something strange, something that suprised you even as it came out of your own mouth? He ovbiously feels bad, I would try & explore why someone you trust letting a bit of agressive sexuality out scares you so much.

Now if a "friend" called me a bitch for having an oppinion I would show him just how opinated I could get, but if my man dirty talked I would hope I could make the distinction.

 
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September 4, 2008, 4:11 pm PDT

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Quote From: secrettiger

Yes, what you did was wrong. Thats your child. I don't care if she was 95. Thats your baby girl that your husband just asked to have sex with. Forget it's just "talk" he was trying to act on that talk. So he thinks so little of you that he would try to have sex with your baby girl. Thats a sick man, & you deserve better. Your child needs to know that even though she is 25 you are still her mommy & can still protect her, at the least from the sexual advances of her own husband.

I agree with this 100%. Being drunk is no excuse for trying to sexually engadge your own daughter. I can guarantee you that he did want to do more than just talk to her about being sexual, and I'm sure that he would want to take no ownership of it and just blame it on the drink.

 

Honestly, I don't blame your daughter for being angry. Her own mother just chose to side with a perverse drunk instead of protecting her. I wouldn't be surpised if she feels like you value a relationship with him, someone who does sick things and blames anything but himself, instead of a mother/child relationship in which neither of you even think about sexual activity with eachother. I'm sure she feels hurt and betrayed that you even allow him to still be in your life.

 
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September 11, 2008, 6:07 am PDT

My husband prefers porn to me

I have been married for 18 years, and for the last 5-6 years our sex life has been going downhill.  For the last 2 years, my husband and I have had sex 4 times in total.  the last time was over 6 months ago.  When I bring it up, he states that he is in pain (back) and that he is not in the mood because of it.  When we have had sex, it was I who pretty much begged for it.  I can't fdo that anymore.  The other day I caught him looking at reagular and then kinky porn for 5 hours as soon as I left the house.  The type of porn really bothers me - it started out as women and heterosexual couples in hard core positions and then it took a left turn and stayed there to she-male explicit sites for over 3 hours.  When I confronted him with it, he said it was not that long and that he was only curious.  He also said he fell asleep in the middle, but my evidence does not show that, it shows concious clicking every 30 seconds.  Is this commonplace?  Is he gay? How can I get over the hurt.  He says he loves me, but I feel invisible and undesirable.

 

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