How long have you gone without sex?

[Anonymous]

I'm curious, because people have such divergent ideas of what is a "typical" amount of sex.

So, what's the longest you've gone without sex? Why? How did you feel about it?

I may have everyone beat. I went for more than 4 years without sex, during an imploding marriage. I felt sad about what the lack of sex said about the health of my relationship. I missed intimacy, but I didn't really miss the act of sex. I just took care of myself in that regard!

[Anonymous]

And we thought the announcement of sexual orientation post was weird

[Anonymous]

My dh and I routinely go a month. We are really in love and have a happy marriage. And we snuggle all the time, of course. Sometimes it's just a while before I have the energy again!

[Anonymous]

2 months but that was during my single days.

With DH...3 weeks if you don't count oral and 2 if you do. This was after I had DS.

[Anonymous]

I've gone months, but that was due to pregnancy.

I have a friend who has never had sex with her husband. And other than that, they are happy together.

[Anonymous]

what day is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I have a friend who has never had sex with her husband. And other than that, they are happy together.

WHAT?

[Anonymous]

I haven't quite reached you, OP. I'm getting close to 3 years due also to an imploding marriage. Pretty desperate by now.

[Anonymous]

I didn't have sex the entire yr I was 25. It was a self imposed break from relationships and dating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven't quite reached you, OP. I'm getting close to 3 years due also to an imploding marriage. Pretty desperate by now.

This fascinates me. Are you the woman? Because I guarantee my husband would have been out LONG ago. Like... I would say a year at the very outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I have a friend who has never had sex with her husband. And other than that, they are happy together.

WHAT?

I know. Sounds insane. And in any other couple, I would be certain there was an affair or something to blame. But he has some sort of psychosomatic thing going on and she has just stopped pushing him on the topic.

[Anonymous]

15 years. And counting. And know what? It's not the big deal I thought it was. Not desperate at all. I give myself an orgasm when I need it and then I'm done with it. The need to have sex with another person just never seems to equal the hassle.

[Anonymous]

1 to 1.5 years as a single person. Not into casual sex or relationships.

In a relationship if we had little to no sex in 6 months the relationship was over.

[Anonymous]

I am a married woman who went 2 years. It was pregnancy + cancer = long drought. My marriage was never in trouble...we were too busy focusing on fighting the fight. 6 rounds of chemo made sex very very unimportant.

[Anonymous]

Just came off a 2 year dry spell. Before that it was one year.