Date: November 14th, 2013 10:29 AM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
I'm pissed. Married six months ago, wife has no interest in sex or fooling around. I know before the wedding that she had some sexual issues, but we still fooled around a decent amount. Now, I'm lucky to have sex once a month - that's on a good month. Blowjobs are non-existent. Handjobs, when they occur (very rarely), are done so un-enthusiastically that they're not worth the effort.
Date: November 14th, 2013 10:38 AM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
I remember you, you're an old timer. I also recall you asked the board this before marriage and EVERYONE told you not to marry because this exact thing would happen. You cannot "wait it out." It is only getting worse, not better. Divorce now. Try to push for annulment if possible, though that's a hard game to play. But it might scare her enough to sign a favorable settlement. Good luck.
Date: November 14th, 2013 10:40 AM Author: Adventurous orange place of business
Talk about it. Tell her that if she's feeling like any of HER needs are being unmet, she should let you know and you'll work on it -- and that you expect the same of her.
Date: November 14th, 2013 10:42 AM Author: bearded swashbuckling mediation
First thing you need to do is talk to her and let you know this is how you're feeling and that you'd like more sex. You owe it to her to let her know how you feel. Also, try to work on things that she appreciates.
If, however, you have (a) put her on notice and (b) made a good faith effort to do more for her, and nothing changes, you should either separate or outsource the work occasionally. Try to take care of this before kids.
Date: November 14th, 2013 10:54 AM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
I've thought about that - but this is the first real relationship I've ever had where the girl went cold fish. Usually, even if it starts slow, girls come around. Not so with wife.
And yea, I got serious about being back in shape, I'm making a conscious effort to not be beta-husband-man. My practice is killing it - these are good times for me and I'm happy and confident with the other aspects of my life. I don't think it's me.
Date: November 14th, 2013 10:57 AM Author: bearded swashbuckling mediation
Then get out or fuck other girls. Seriously.
I'm all for mutual respect in a marriage. But women can't take something like sex, which is important to a man, limit it only to within the marriage, and then basically deny it to you.
It would be like telling a woman she could no longer go out with her friends for fun but only with you, and then you deciding you don't want to do anything fun. THAT's the real disrespect IMO.
Date: November 14th, 2013 11:02 AM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
Then divorce ASAP. The longer you let this drag the more you'll line her pockets with ill gotten gain. Get the documents today, fill it in, try to get her to sign tonight.
Date: November 14th, 2013 11:07 AM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
So do it now. There's zero reason to wait. Show up with documents at dinner. If she is like "nooooo, I'll change" then you can give her another chance. And push her on it if she does. Sex 3-4x a week. Anything short of that and proceed with the divorce.
Date: November 14th, 2013 10:46 AM Author: Emerald appetizing business firm
Definitely see if she's willing to work on it first, esp if you love most other aspects of the marriage. She should definitely see a doctor. Lots of things can affect libido in women. I've had issues with Vitamin D deficiency, and ESPECIALLY long-term pill use. Doctors and the literature don't talk about it much, but if she's been on the pill for several years she just won't be in the mood. I was on it for 8 years. As soon as I went off it to start having kids it was a HUGE difference.
You'd want to do condoms for a while though. Don't let yourself get BABBY-PWNED until you know you can work this out. And if she isn't willing to work on any of it, ATD.
Date: November 14th, 2013 10:51 AM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
I've suspected this. She uses a neavo-ring (sp) and keeps that sucker up there for months at a time. I've brought this up to her, but she's still on that thing because she doesn't think she can remember to take the pill.
She says that she's super worried about getting pregnant because we're kind of fucked health insurance wise right now and she doesn't have maternity coverage - so getting pregos will cost us about 15k. Sure - I get that, but she still has no interest to fool around in any other way.
Date: November 14th, 2013 10:54 AM Author: Emerald appetizing business firm
She could still see her doctor and get bloodwork and explore options. For the pill, have her keep it on her nightstand and either always take it when she goes to bed or always when she gets up. Better to be off by an hour once in a while than to forget altogether.
Nuvo-ring I believe is 3 weeks at a time so if she's really not changing it for months that is not only gross but also risking pregnancy anyway.
Date: November 14th, 2013 10:57 AM Author: Emerald appetizing business firm
The most important thing here is being willing to change. Esp if you've expressed what a problem it is. I couldn't believe what a difference it made once I got off the hormones. I'll never go back on it. I hate using condoms as much as my husband, but it's better than no sex.
Date: November 14th, 2013 11:00 AM Author: Emerald appetizing business firm
Yeah I mean if insurance is an issue just buy some ultra-thin trojans and tell her to take out the ring. You'd see improvement probably in a week or so if that's the issue. If after a month or so she still doesn't seem into it, do bloodwork. She could have a deficiency, thyroid issue, etc.
Date: November 14th, 2013 10:53 AM Author: Orchid Provocative National
You need to command her respect. Start lifting nude. When you walk in the door wearing nothing but timerlands and a du rag, muscles and cock still swollen from a good session, you just tell her to get that pussy out and start pounding.
Date: November 14th, 2013 11:01 AM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
Yup. Dead on.
EDIT: and because of that I'll give it more effort. It's a good marriage except for the lack of sex - of course, which is the same as saying I have a good law practice that just doesn't make much money.
Date: November 14th, 2013 11:39 AM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
Yeah, it is like that. You're a really successful lawyer but no money. That means not so much. She isn't going to change. I'm sorry, but you need to accept that. You didn't before marriage (hoping that a legal document would do it). Now you're hoping for what, exactly? If she gave a shit she would change. When I was in a LTR there were times when I wanted to sleep and my gf wanted to fuck and I was like "whatever" and dicked her. If she really cared she would do the same. She doesn't. Move on.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:00 PM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
In an early argument, she skirted at the idea that if that was what I wanted, she would consider it.
Problem is that she doesn't want that and that would end the marriage very quickly. Also, I just want to fuck my wife - I don't want to get caught up in crazy love triangle bullshit.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:03 PM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
Don't get me wrong, I would love to go fuck someones brains out. And cheating sex is always so hot, especially drunk, random strange from the bar sex. This is an available option if I wanted it.
But fuck if I go this route I might as well leave my wife. She would never - and I mean never - be able to deal with the shit that would come with an open marriage.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:21 PM Author: bearded swashbuckling mediation
Then why not just fuck other chicks occasionally? You both get the benefit of a marriage that is working otherwise, and she doesn't have to put out all the time, nor will she feel pressured to put out all the time.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:35 PM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
This will happen eventually if things don't change whether I decide to do this or not. I'm out a lot being social, drinking, being around women who have been drinking, for work often and there are other options. I know that's a cop out but I love sex and boobies and nice big asses and there's only so many times I can pass up ass
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:39 PM Author: bearded swashbuckling mediation
>>I know that's a cop out but I love sex and boobies and nice big asses and there's only so many times I can pass up ass<<
That's not a cop out. That's called being a man with needs that aren't being met.
Look at it this way. If your wife needed emotional support and you weren't providing it at all, even after she made it clear that she needed it, how long do you think it would take her to run to some third party for that support?
Date: November 14th, 2013 3:46 PM Author: brilliant vigorous police squad love of her life
No, dude. This won't solve the problem, it will just incubate the problem and let it grow bigger. He needs to figure this shit out one way or another before they have kids.
Date: November 14th, 2013 12:17 PM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
I think the problem is that she's cold - not that she's manipulative. Though, she is manipulative, and I wouldn't put it past her.
She knows her marriage could fail for lack of sex, she just can't (or more likely won't) do anything about it. And she really doesn't want this divorce - I do well and she doesn't.
Date: November 14th, 2013 12:32 PM Author: Beady-eyed main people
It's not that they are being consciously manipulative. It's biological. Many women are hardwired to use sex to get a man, but once they have them just lose that desire.
Date: November 14th, 2013 12:49 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
This is why when you realize that you fell into that trap you need to undo it ASAP. You don't "work on it" in this situation because you cannot fix it. It is how these women are hardwired. You just flat out show up with documents. If she says "noooo, I will change" you give her exactly 1 chance. It is either a complete reversal that sticks or you move ahead with the divorce. Zero compromise on this.
Date: November 14th, 2013 12:55 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
Not true, this would work on many women. You're looking at this stupidly. Women don't have to want sex to have sex. This is a fucking lie that modern society is selling. Wives have, since the beginning of time, fucked their husbands when they didn't feel like it because their husbands wanted to. Divorce can absolutely scare her legs open, if not getting her pussy wet. If it doesn't then fuck it, she doesn't care enough about the marriage.
This sucks. You can't pressure her or you might cause her to shut down even more, but you need to make it clear that this might cost both of you your marriage (which otherwise sounds like you're happy with).
You're not alone -- so many people deal with this.
I'd have a serious sit-down with her, express how much this means to you, that you look forward to spending the rest of your life with her, but that you need this part of your relationship to be healthy. Encourage her to go see a doctor to talk about this.
Also, could it be psychological? Was she ever raped or abused?
Date: November 14th, 2013 12:20 PM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
"This sucks. You can't pressure her or you might cause her to shut down even more, but you need to make it clear that this might cost both of you your marriage (which otherwise sounds like you're happy with)."
Exactly
"Also, could it be psychological? Was she ever raped or abused?"
Her first time - and only time prior to me - was in high school and was less than consensual, and was a fiasco. So, yes. That was almost 15 years ago and it's true that she probably has not dealt with it. But she chooses not to deal with it and it's another excuse just like too tired, work tomorrow, stressed out, TV show on, etc. etc.
This is eerily similar to a LTR that I had that nearly ended up in marriage, but didn't, primarily for this reason (frigid, in large part because of long-past abuse).
You need to be patient if you want this to work, but I'd definitely get her to go to the doctor to see if it's as simple as the BC. If nothing else, it at least eliminates one possibility.
Also, the TV show / iPad shit is so easy to do in marriage -- it's so much easier to sit there and do nothing than to go through the same foreplay that you've done 50-1,000 times. At 9 p.m., ask her if she wants to go to bed early. Or maybe even make a "sex date," as lame as that sounds, that way it's penciled-in that when you get home from dinner on Friday at 10, you're heading straight to the bedroom and not to the couch so that you manage her expectations for the night (i.e. so that she's not disappointed that she's not catching up on some Bravo show).
Anyway, as others have said, first thing to do is to get her to the doc to see what's up and to take her off the BC or see if it's some other issue.
Date: November 14th, 2013 12:46 PM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
haha yea I've thought about that. I only found out about her lack of prior sex thing after a few months of being with her. Which - oddly enough - was after she was banging me and we had sex on our first date. She later told me that I was her first since HS well after we had been dating for a while - she's in her late 20's. Which is even stranger considering wife is hot - very hot - and regularly hooked up with guys prior to us going out. As I learned all this, I thought I was just being lied to (no big deal, to be expected when talking to woman about past sexual experiences). At this point, I realize this that most likely all this is true and my girl is just really fucked up regarding sex.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:19 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
lol if you believe this. I have a bridge I'd love to sell you. Very commonly used. You have no idea how many people commute from Brooklyn to NYC and back using this bridge EVERY DAY.
Date: November 14th, 2013 12:16 PM Author: sexy stimulating casino
There is a very, very good chance that it is birth control. Get her off that shit, and if her libido returns, she can try a different type of BC and hope she fares better with that, or she can start pumping out kids.
Date: November 14th, 2013 12:26 PM Author: sexy stimulating casino
I have a vague recollection of telling you this in your preemarriage thread on this topic. Be forewarned, she will fight you on this issue like a cornered Wolverine. At this point, present it to her that it is really important to you and the marriage that she starts to do something about it and try to minimize the actual sex part. You can play it off as concern that her lack of libido may be a symptom of an underlying medical issue. Women eat that shit up. But whatever you do, don't let it devolve into a confrontation about her being a cold prude (even though that is precisely what it is about).
Date: November 14th, 2013 12:55 PM Author: sexy stimulating casino
Having the argument out in the open will not help resolve the issue. So why the fuck should he have the argument? Just for the sake of arguing? Fuck that.
Date: November 14th, 2013 12:58 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
It will get clarity on whether it is worth continuing to work on it rather than having him guess what his situation really is and post about it on this bort full of aspie losers.
Date: November 14th, 2013 12:53 PM Author: razzle-dazzle personal credit line gaming laptop
This may sound dumb, but have you tried to plan some sort of weekend getaway? Like to a B&B or somewhere where you can get away from your house/apt., away from the tv, away from your computers and ipads, etc, and just be together? Remove the distractions, get out of your bedroom which has become some sort of sexual mental block for her, and see if that spices things up.
Date: November 14th, 2013 12:56 PM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
Yes. This is a good way to get passive, I-know-I-should-be-doing-this sex once. Problem is that she doesn't want sexual contact, and if you strip all the excuses away, problem is still there.
Seriously, romantic trips pretty much fail cost/ benefit. Lots of moola for one crappy lay.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:06 PM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
That's not true. It's just really disheartening to plan a big trip, spend thousands with the expectations of hot sex, and get let down. I've done this a few times and in the past I have been left bitter and pissed off about it.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:24 PM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
This is the part I hate about being married. In the past, a GF would have fucked my brains out because she knew that I wasn't committed to her and she wanted me. Now that I'm committed, I am the nice guy.
Prior to marriage, if I took a girl to, say Atlanta, we went out to on the town, had a great time, spent 3 days in the city seeing the sites, then after the trip I didn't call her for 3 weeks - I wouldn't be a nice guy. Now I'm a nice guy and *amazingly* I'm not getting laid.
Date: November 14th, 2013 12:58 PM Author: Sick vengeful temple
I agree with this. She might feel obligated to fuck you if you take her to Vegas or whatever, but that's not going to help you reestablish a normal sexual relationship. If you aren't fucking at least twice a week 6 months in then something is wrong.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:00 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
She doesn't want to have sex. And now that she's married she believes she doesn't have to. That's the problem and NOTHING is going to change that. His move.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:02 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
Listen, this is a woman that had sex once as a teenager and regretted it. She then didn't have sex until over a decade later (with him), and we know that even then it was a rare occasion. Much of that time she wasn't even on BC, she still was largely asexual. It isn't BC, it is her.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:21 PM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
This is true and it isn't. She dated lots of guys and hooked up with dudes pretty regularly prior to us dating. She once bragged that she went out 3 nights a week for 6 months and her girlfriends never one bought their own drink. So she has interest in men. Just not sex apparently.
But she was frigid then too. She's a kissy-huggy but no nookie girl and was then too - she doesn't admit it, but the stories I've heard, the lack of serious suitors during that time - this has been a running problem for her.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:37 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
I have to ask, do YOU have issues that you're not addressing? I mean, you're a divorce attorney and the facts you're describing are just damning. You seemed to have jumped right into a predictably awful situation and honestly, it seems irreparable. But you knew that. Why did you self-harm this way? Do you have self-hatred issues?
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:03 PM Author: razzle-dazzle personal credit line gaming laptop
Fair point. I enjoy the occasional get away with my wife in order to recharge the batteries on oru sex life, but that's largely influenced by the fact that the shortcomings in our sex life is largely driven by having 3 kids under the age of 5. We are barely ever alone in the same bed together. Your problem seems to be more serious.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:02 PM Author: glassy talented black woman
It may be birth control, but given everything else you've said about her (lack of interest in sex prior to marriage, bad experience with sex first time), it's likely psychological and has very little, if anything, to do with birth control.
I think her current position, given her already low sex drive, results from two things: lack of positive reinforcement + lack of understanding how important it is to you. Try having a third party (can't be you because you are too interested) explain to her how important sex is to men and how much it improves the quality of relationships. This has to be done very carefully, and she cannot suspect that you had anything to do with this. If you have a married couple as friends, talk to the husband so that he talks to his wife, who may then talk to your wife, or something like this.
On your end, you have to incentivize her. Every time she does anything remotely sexual (I don't know where you want to draw the line, kissing, groping your butt, whatever) exaggerate (but don't overdo) your positive reaction. Can range from verbal to flowers to anything else. This will help establish the connection in her head that sex = good for her too, even if she is not in the mood.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:10 PM Author: glassy talented black woman
Positive reinforcement works on everyone not just puppies. If you got a bj every time you did something your woman liked, wouldn't you just keep doing it? Just gotta find something that works for her.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:18 PM Author: glassy talented black woman
Therapy only works if she admits the problem and wants to take the necessary steps to fix it. Sounds like she is not there yet, and suggesting therapy will only make her defensive and diminish any hope of success.
Date: November 14th, 2013 2:04 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
I agree that positive reinforcement generally works. But human sexuality is something more hardcoded than most things. Also, men are simple creatures. Give me a BJ for doing something and I'm highly likely to do it 3x a day almost regardless of what it is. But then again, if I didn't feel like sex and you asked me to fuck, guess what I would do? That's right, I'd take my pants off and stand at attention.
Date: November 14th, 2013 2:37 PM Author: glassy talented black woman
Right, and positive reinforcement is not meant to awaken her desire. It is meant to get her into the mindset of wanting to please her man, not doing it because she is has to. Once she gets to that point, it will be easier to take to the next step of developing her sexuality.
Date: November 14th, 2013 2:39 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
She isn't 14, she is 28. You're not going to "develop her sexuality" at this point. Her views on pleasing her man are similarly set.
And I absolutely respect your POV here, I think it is the right way to go in many cases. for example, if his wife was cool with 2-3x/week and he wanted 4-5x/week. This isn't that.
Date: November 14th, 2013 2:48 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
I suspected this. So you are the wife in his situation. But surely he pushed this issue. Am I correct when I say that short of divorce it would have continued with the status quo? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if divorce has that effect on her as well. But I still think the marriage is fucked.
Date: November 14th, 2013 3:00 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
Ok, that sounds like a very different situation. Like, the 10,000 ft view of the problem may be somewhat similar and the cause of death might technically both be "lack of sex in the relationship" but the reasons for that seem totally different.
But be honest, do you think there was any way to save that marriage?
Date: November 14th, 2013 3:09 PM Author: cheese-eating multi-colored dysfunction
it's a different situation but the root of the issue is the same -- both women are incapable of being in a good relationship b/c they're selfish.
it doesn't matter what the reason is for not wanting sex, whether hormonal, lack of interest, sexual abuse in the past, etc. you suck it up and let your husband pound away for 5-10 min b/c you know it makes him happy. it is a very small sacrifice to make, and definitely a much less sacrifice he made by giving up his freedom to marry you and going with you on your stupid apple picking outting when all he wants to do is watch football all day.
Date: November 14th, 2013 3:30 PM Author: glassy talented black woman
Your premise is not quite accurate. You assume that both I and OP's wife were/are aware of how important sex is to men and were/are withholding it because we're selfish. This is not true. My first point was that the OP needs to make sure his wife learns how important sex is. And I believe I mentioned somewhere above that learning this made a huge difference for me.
Date: November 14th, 2013 4:57 PM Author: cheese-eating multi-colored dysfunction
OP has said he's made it clear how important it is to him, but realistically, it might not resonate w/ her either until they actually get divorced. i also do not believe for a second that you had no idea, just like i don't buy for a second that OP's wife doesn't think sex is important. OP's wife certainly uses the possibility of sex to entice men by hooking up and making out with them short of sex, so she definitely has a very strong awareness of how important sex is to men since i'm sure she's very familiar with how guys react to the possibility of sex.
this whole "somebody needs to make me aware of how important sex is" argument is a bs cop out designed to put the blame on the husband for not articulating it. no couple who lives together need to explicitly articulate things to see that one or both is unhappy and something needs to be fixed.
be honest w/ yourself. did you really think you had NO IDEA that sex was important to your ex-husband? he never once tried to initiate sex and be grumpy when you refused? does your husband need to tell you that football is important when he reacts negatively to the fact that you change the channel from football to house hunters? you can't deduce from that reaction that FOOTBALL IS IMPORTANT? he needs to scream in your ear "SEX IS IMPORTANT" for you to get it? it's your being willfully ignorant, at best. and a high level of willful ignorance is definitely selfish.
it's equally your job to figure out what he's unsatisfied with as it is his to articulate it. that is, if you actually care to fix the relationship. but it sounded like neither of you wanted to make the effort to fix your marriage. it sounds like you both just gave up.
Date: November 14th, 2013 3:04 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
Interesting, that's useful I think. So long story short, if you're incompatible you have to end it, right? If that's the case then why did you say divorce isn't the answer above? It absolutely seemed to be the answer.
Date: November 14th, 2013 4:48 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
No offense, but 2 things in your story here are striking:
1. You say you didn't realize how much men value sex. Really? How is this possible?
2. You also suggested that an open relationship was a great idea. You think you having sex with other men and letting him have sex with other women was a solution?
It sounds to me like in these cases you women are just not that into the marriage.
Date: November 14th, 2013 2:54 PM Author: cheese-eating multi-colored dysfunction
you're dead wrong on this. positive reinforcement doesn't get her in the mindset of pleasing her man. you think prostitutes fuck to please the man? she fucks b/c she gets money. if you treat your wife like that, it gets her in the mindset of thinking of everything she wants BUT her man (flowers, a nice dinner, etc). it makes it into entirely an economic transaction. and honestly, if it works, and she does fuck you for flowers, then basically she's ok being a prostitute.
Date: November 14th, 2013 2:57 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
But prostitutes do fuck well. Very well in fact, often better than women that love you and want to please you. Even after they already have your money. They will throw their legs fucking far back and wince as you pound them deep, then let you fuck their asses as they grab the bedsheets. You know why? Because they want more money, a good review, etc. Everyone is a whore to some degree, and I include males in this and I expand this beyond sex. Bringing it back to sex, this may well be a way to approach this issue, assuming they don't hate sex the way OP's wife seems to.
Date: November 14th, 2013 3:13 PM Author: cheese-eating multi-colored dysfunction
sex is the superficial problem. he can go cheat on her and get sex too. or hire a prostitute.
the underlying problem is that she doesn't give a shit about his happiness. if she started giving him sex and he knew she's only doing it to get flowers or at the threat of divorce or whatever else, long term, he still won't be satisfied or happy.
it's clear that the girl he married isn't cut out for marriage b/c she is too selfish and it also sounds like OP was mature enough to assess the situation objectively before jumping in.
Date: November 14th, 2013 3:24 PM Author: Adventurous orange place of business
I get what you're saying, but think about it this way: She truly doesn't understand how important sex is to him, because it's so unimportant to her. So she doesn't know how shitty she's being to him by not giving it to him.
Yes, it's selfish behavior; she knows he wants it but isn't willing to give it. But it's not INCREDIBLY selfish, because to her it's not a huge deal. I'm sure you don't bend over backwards to please your husband (fiance?) in every single way.
Date: November 14th, 2013 3:36 PM Author: bearded swashbuckling mediation
Maybe I think people are smarter than they actually are, but if he's saying "I need to have more sex -- this is critically important to me", she should get it. It's not like he's putting out vague clues.
And also, we're not talking about something all-encompassing about a person. It'd be a different story if he was saying "don't be neurotic". That's hard to change, and it's hard to notice improvement. OP would have a much, much better marriage, if, 2x a week for a total of 20-30 mins, his wife begged him for some hot sex. That's not hard to do.
Date: November 14th, 2013 5:00 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
According to him, he has said "I like everything about this relationship yet if I don't get more sex I am going to get a divorce" and that STILL has not prompted her to have sex. I'm not going to buy, given this fact pattern, that she doesn't realize that this is a big deal.
Date: November 14th, 2013 3:38 PM Author: cheese-eating multi-colored dysfunction
no person bends over backwards to please their SOs on every single thing. but there are fundamental things like sex.
i don't buy for a second that she cannot fathom that it's important to him because, unless she has been under a rock, it is just common knowledge that men like sex. i'm sorry, but no woman, however clueless, goes into a marriage thinking that her husband is ok with being celibate. it just doesn't fucking happen.
but let's say that she is just that clueless and has NO IDEA that men like sex. well, as op has said above, he has made it clear to him that it's important to him, enough that he's even expressed that it could be grounds for divorce.
so she knows. she just doesn't care enough to change it. they need to divorce.
Date: November 14th, 2013 4:00 PM Author: sexy stimulating casino
TBF, there is no better example of female narcissism running amok than a female who is unwilling to engage in sexual activity with their boyfriend or spouse.
Date: November 14th, 2013 4:51 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
No, she is dead fucking on. It isn't harsh, it is basic fact. There is no point in tiptoeing around the basic facts here at all, as I suspect the OP is doing with his soon to be ex-wife.
Date: November 14th, 2013 5:03 PM Author: Doobsian bossy university cuckoldry
"Date: November 14th, 2013 3:40 PM
Author: _(._.)_ (The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Heh)
I usually like you as a poaster but your poasts ITT are pretty harsh, like you have something to prove about what an eager, willing GF you are."
She does. As usual, she has to prove that she is better and more astute than any other chick that has something to say on here. Nutella has it all figured, the rest are uncool shrews. She must drill this fact any time another female weighs in.
Date: November 14th, 2013 5:07 PM Author: cheese-eating multi-colored dysfunction
no, i'm not trying to make myself look good at all.
it just irritates me when people try to make excuses for behavior and blame it on hormones, blame it on past trauma, your parents, the economy, etc. etc. and then comes up with a solution that involves a lot of coddling and hand-holding. there is no accountability at all. millenial mentality, lol.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:14 PM Author: Electric Idea He Suggested Public Bath
The third party thing is a good idea and I have thought about enlisting her best friend to help. She's a mutual friend and would be happy to get involved - the problem is that my wife doesn't really socialize all that much with her anymore so best friend would have to bend over backwards to get involved. It's an idea though.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:21 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
Therapists are a waste of time and money and their goal in life is to avoid judging fault. And what he needs is for someone to say "no, that's not fucking reasonable, cut it out." A mutual friend can do it and a therapists can't. That said, I think it is all hopeless as this is someone who a) believes that she should only have sex when she wants to, and b) never wants to.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:38 PM Author: Haunting titillating gas station french chef
Some are better than others. It's not a cure all but might be a good place to start. This might sound weird, but some therapists counsel from a point of view for example Christian therapy. They don't like divorce and will counsel against it in all but extreme cases. The point being simply that some therapists aren't afraid to insert their viewpoints and tell you what they think. They aren't all shitlibs validating everything.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:41 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
Honestly, listening to him talk, I'm starting to suspect this bro has serious self-hatred issues that have caused him to get into this awful situation. He may need counseling not for his marriage but for his own issues.
Date: November 14th, 2013 1:58 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
I would seriously consider what is going on if I were you. I know guys like you. Every one of them has some issue that causes them to throw in with women who are the most likely to fuck up their shit despite the fact that it is self-evident that this is how it will go.
Date: November 14th, 2013 2:07 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
If you were some 19 year old starry eyed kid who figured it was love at first sight then I wouldn't be saying this. But you're not some naive fool. You're an almost middle aged man that is a divorce attorney to boot, meaning you actually deal with this shit all day. So I wouldn't look at divorce or counseling as an either or. You should get a divorce AND enroll in counseling.
Date: November 14th, 2013 2:22 PM Author: glassy talented black woman
So getting what you wanted every time you gave your fiancee/husband a bj, even if you were not that into it, wouldn't make you any more likely to give him bjs?
Date: November 14th, 2013 2:27 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
This assumes someone doesn't have a major hatred of sex. You're right - many women will fuck easily for all sorts of things. Many will fuck because they want to go hiking when their bfs/husbands want to sit at home and watch TV. Many fuck for a fucking living. For anyone in that category, small incentives will work well. That's obviously not this girl.
Date: November 14th, 2013 2:41 PM Author: glassy talented black woman
It's not so obvious to me that this girl hates sex and isn't just indifferent to it. So, maybe this is something worth trying before concluding that it won't work.
Date: November 14th, 2013 2:42 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
I conclude that based on the fact that he has tried to press her on this with no results. Also based on the fact that this has apparently been an issue for her for her entire life.
Date: November 14th, 2013 2:49 PM Author: cheese-eating multi-colored dysfunction
i understand the idea of incentivizing the other party. but that is not the basis of a healthy and mature human relationship based on mutual love and respect. it works w/ dogs b/c they are incapable of higher functioning the way humans are. he's behaving well b/c he's just thinking "treat treat treat!" and not b/c he knows it makes you happy. a dog's thinking is entirely self serving in that respect.
if you want to treat your wife like a dog, then you're not in a real relationship. if you need to resort to incentivizing them to behave a certain way, it does not address the underlying issue. you have sex w/ your partner b/c you know it makes them happy, NOT b/c you think you're going to get a purse out of it. actually giving them a purse in exchange encourages them to continue being selfish, which only makes the problem worse at the end of the day.
Date: November 14th, 2013 2:52 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
Yeah but I'm not sure you can fix selfish. Also I do realize this would work for men in a variety of areas. My issue here is that I just think she hates sex too much for this to be effective.
Date: November 14th, 2013 5:11 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
In any relationship long enough there WILL be obligation sex or there will be sex refusal. I would much rather have an understanding that obligation sex is required than to wonder whether you're at the point where you show up with divorce papers.
Date: November 14th, 2013 5:28 PM Author: rose razzmatazz cumskin bawdyhouse
my wife is really, really bad at faking enthusiasm. not just with sex, but for anything. there's no way for me to prove it to you, but i am telling the truth.
i will also say that we don't have sex as often as i'd like though, only 3-4 times per month. that said, i'd rather have good sex less frequently than more sex but have it be obligation sex.
Date: November 14th, 2013 5:34 PM Author: rose razzmatazz cumskin bawdyhouse
yeah, i get refusal fairly regularly. that's ok though.
OP's wife needs to go to a shrink. and to her obgyn. it's probably mental though, because of her first bad sex experience.
obligation sex sucks and if that's the only sex they have they're going to resent each other and he's very likely to cheat. women think men just want sex, and when men talk about sex they make it sound like they really are just into the physical, but within a long term relationship meaningful sex is crucial. men need it emotionally. all men, even the ones that pretend like they don't.
Date: November 14th, 2013 5:56 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
So you say "I'm not happy because I don't get enough sex."
She now has two choices. Option 1. obligation sex. Option 2. tell you that she feels sorry for your lots. I don't understand how talking is a resolution here.
Date: November 14th, 2013 4:56 PM Author: Doobsian bossy university cuckoldry
if you are actually a chick, then you are a really weird aspie. not too uncommon for law shrews i suppose, but jesus, this read like a response from a seventeen year old boy who was instructed to answer from a 'female perspective.'
What you guys says here is more or less consistent with my own experience and confirms what I think most men realize quite early on: most women, especially in committed relationships, tend to set 'the price of sex' too high for most men. It's their right to do so, of course, that is to say, to want what they want, but this is often incompatible with what most men want or will accept. Unlike (most) women, men do not use sex to get what they want because what men want is sex, and as long as there are women available to a man who is not getting the sex he wants from his woman (no doubt, as fullcat points out, because she's not getting what she wants -- e.g using sex to get whatever it is she wants isn't working for her anymore) he'll always be tempted and often will "cheat". I agree, it's better to end the relationship than to cheat on one's partner, but it's often not that simple in relationships where (e.g.) children, community property, good relationships with one another's extended family, strong religious traditions, etc are also at stake.
Isn't it ironic (or hypocritical), however, how often women (or men for that matter) who, for whatever reason, stop giving their partners the sex they want nonetheless feel that the sex (desperately) gotten elsewhere by their partners is significant enough to be a betrayal (i.e. "cheating"); this amounts to "well, I'm not giving you satisfying sex because you don't deserve it, so you can't have it or get it from anyone else". She uses sex in order to get him to monogamously commit to her, then expects the commitment to remain in tact after she's, so to speak, moved the goal-posts (c'mon, you know I had to drop at least one sport's metaphor in here if only out of male solidarity) by denying sex in order to get something more from him. Negotiate, re-negotiate? I suspect for most men, satisfying sex is non-negotiable; in fact, truth be told, satisfying sex is the raison d'etre for monogamous long-term commitment to a woman. Women, and even many men, live in denial of this fact, thus suffering this fundamentally male-female incommensurability in "quiet desperation" until driven, often, to humiliate themselves by begging in the streets for what they no longer can (or have forgotten how to) get at home. The fault for "cheating" does lie with the cheater (there's no question in my mind of that!); but the incommensurable motives/expectations of men & women more often than not -- or in many quarters 'more likely than it's polite to admit' -- make "cheating" the perverbial lesser evil.
Date: November 14th, 2013 5:13 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
Look breh, if he had kids that were like 12, I'd say cheat like crazy until they're 18 and then divorce and never talk to her again. Or if there wasn't quite enough sex I'd say an occasional escort will balance the books. But at this stage there's nothing to do except divorce.
Date: November 14th, 2013 5:36 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
lol @ the sanctity of marriage. No-fault divorce + generally social acceptance that the woman can do whatever she wants in marriage with no consequences means that marriage is a joke.
Date: November 14th, 2013 5:22 PM Author: sexy stimulating casino
You right to point out he inherently flawed logic of someone who is unwilling to have sex with their spouse bu then feels it is a fundamental betrayal when the spouse steps out. But you miss the mark with your comments about using sex. OP's wife is not using sex. If she was, she would either be having sex with him somewhat more often, or she would be constantly nagging him about shit.
This is a simple case of female with a low libido who is unable or unwilling to bring herself to do something she doesn't necessarily want to do for the benefit of her husband.
One last point that needs to be made, I think a lot of people up thread are somewhat oversimplifying the challenge faced by OP's wife. She can't just lay there like a cold fish and take it. First, the physical act is almost impossible if the female is not at least somewhat turned on. Second, emotionless sex would only temporarily scratch OP's itch. Sooner or later, his desire for lust and affection from another female would become every bit as strong as his desire for the physical act.
Date: November 14th, 2013 5:26 PM Author: bearded swashbuckling mediation
>> Isn't it ironic (or hypocritical), however, how often women (or men for that matter) who, for whatever reason, stop giving their partners the sex they want nonetheless feel that the sex (desperately) gotten elsewhere by their partners is significant enough to be a betrayal (i.e. "cheating"); this amounts to "well, I'm not giving you satisfying sex because you don't deserve it, so you can't have it or get it from anyone else". <<
Brother, I agree 100%, and have said the same thing multiple times on here.
consider the demographic of xoxo. you may not be getting the best advice. so far, the only women you have commenting are pumette (who is probably doobs) and nutella.
Date: November 14th, 2013 5:38 PM Author: abnormal office half-breed
Pumette sounds like Lonely Hunter. Sounds just like her, actually. She conveniently left out the part where she cheated on her ex, so her advice on the matter is not to be trusted.
Date: November 14th, 2013 5:42 PM Author: motley walnut whorehouse
Would explain why she is being deliberately secretive and why her preferred solution involved an open relationship. Also comports with the whole "I married young" and the whole "I divorced him."
Date: November 15th, 2013 4:22 AM Author: yapping ladyboy background story
You say that she is able to have orgasms in this thread. So, she is not frigid. She either does not want to have sex with you personally or with anyone at all. Could be physical (drugs, depression, not attracted to you) or psychological (the trauma and rape you mention). I would be willing to be that it's a combination of the two.
Date: November 15th, 2013 11:18 PM Author: Grizzly Stage Reading Party
Jesus Christ. She is obviously damaged goods and has some sort of abuse or trauma in her past. See if a therapist can fix her. If not, either divorce her or enjoy life as a nullo.
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