Interesting that you are grown up enough to accept what works for you as maturity but not grown enough to realize that what works for others is not trashy just because it does not work for you. Grow up some more. |
Her feeling could have nothing to do with reality |
It's only a word salad because you are obsessed with sex. So in your disordered brain, a woman with a high libido who likes sex with her husband would somehow decide to spite him by not having sex with him? Go to therapy and cure yourself from your obsession with sex. Then come back and think about it again. |
It's true that you can't force a spouse to agree to opening the marriage, but, somehow, cheaters have an entire imaginary conversation in their brains where their spouse rejects the "open the marriage" request - without every actually speaking those words out loud and negotiating with their spouses. That's because cheaters don't want to negotiate, they want to control and manipulate and exert their power (marital power to demand sex, that they imagine they have) and punish (for rejection of their power). If you want to be ethical, ask the question about opening the marriage explicitly and be willing to renegotiate the terms of the marriage in a written post-nuptial agreement. |
If you are over the age of 45 and you are "horny 24/7" (and it's not a temporary thing maybe due to a hormone imbalance) then sex is a HUGE part of your identity. I'm 46, DH is 49, and I think about sex maybe once a week. If it coincides with my DH thinking about sex, we have sex. Some weeks we don't have sex and we both seem fine with that. We initiate sex about equally -- he initiates more on weekdays, I initiate more on weekends, and that has to do with slightly different arousal patterns. We have sex maybe twice a month. If one of us was actually horny 24/7, we'd both be in hell. It just wouldn't work. If he was that horny, I'd have to have a real think about it because I don't want to get divorced (I love him, we have a great life together, our kids are wonderful and we'd both prefer to raise them in a 2-parent household) and I'm uncomfortable with the idea of him having sex with someone else (as much because of the time and energy it would result in him channeling elsewhere as the idea of it being a violation of marital vows -- we are both busy and neither of us needs a new project, much less an affair). I don't know what I'd do. I'm glad I"m not in that situation. I do think past a certain age, if you are that horny, you can't view your spouse's inability to satisfy you as their problem. It's just not reasonable. If you are young and you both went into the marriage with the expectation of very frequent sex, that's different. But late 40s and up, with kids? I think being that horny makes you an outlier. Maybe I'm just delusional about how other people work or maybe everyone I know is just surpassing their sex drive all the time, but I don't see it. People are tired, busy, stressed about kids and politics. But super, super horny? I don't see it. |
Divorce rate has gone up due to women’s unhinged emotions |
True. But such is life. Thank goodness there are other options, such as divorce, right? |
This is so true. People assume their spouse will say no, get mad in advance for this hypothetical discussion they didn't have, and then decide they "deserve" to cheat. If you can't have a frank conversation with your spouse about your sexual needs, the problem is your immaturity, not their lack of libido. |
Ok, sure. Why do you want to be married to one of these women with "unhinged emotions" in the first place? So your dream is to be married to a woman who you think is crazy, but she is not allowed to divorce you, and also you can force her to have sex with you against her will? Hmmm. Count me in for feminism! That sounds like a bad deal for me, a woman I'm certain you would describe as "unhinged". |
I'm not sure what planet you live on, but on Planet Earth, a one person's expectation of another person does not equate to force. Just because your partner expects you to stay married even though your partner refuses to have sex with you doesn't mean you are being forced to stay married. We live in a no fault divorce world (although some Republicans would like to change that); you can file for divorce and leave a marriage whenever you want for whatever reason or for no reason at all. No one is holding you hostage in your home, I hope! You could walk out the door any day and end the marriage. |
I always know when I've gotten to people like you when they launch into these baseless, made up rants, yet invoke therapy for me. You sound positively miserable. |
Just because you have option to do something doesn’t make it a good thing. Are you thankful that people have options to cheat? |
Well at least we've solved the mystery of why YOU are not having sex. |
The divorce rate is at a 50-year low. |
Lol, what are u talking about? I pound my wife whenever I want |