Your friend is a bitch but yes you should feel bad for holding out. Your husband has needs and he will probably go elsewhere if you don't put out, grandma. |
Let's swap. You can stay home at my house every night and be celibate and watch my H drink and watch TV, and your H and I can have sex five times a week. Good deal all around, I say. |
My H is proud that he's a "sexual camel." Same way about eating. |
People with high libidos have no self esteem? Maybe you're just passionless. |
You are mixing apples and oranges. Not being able to have sex with your SO is FAR different than not wanting to have have sex with your SO. Not wanting to be intimate with your DH is a FAR deeper issue than sex. It is about romance, love, attentiveness and attraction. Wanting to be intimate with your spouse is not a weakness. Those marriages you cite are not "strong" at all. Two people have settled for a sparkless and passionless marriage. They are roomates and companions. |
Sorry, that doesn't sound like "fun" either. Sounds to me like your marriage has bigger problems than just sex. |
Then he is a loser and someone else can have him. |
Female here. After over 15 years of working on ways to mutually have our needs addressed (I was the high libido spouse, xH feel pressured because I wanted sex more than once a week), we separated. I simply wasn't able to continue to be monogamous, from age 42 until one of us died, with someone for whom sex is a pleasant 20 minutes, in one of two positions, per week. He now has a nice girlfriend who I'm sure is thrilled not to have to put out much. And although I miss him and our partnership sometimes, I'm deliriously happy to be free sexually. There really are people out there who like sex more than once or twice a week. If you're not married, hold out until you find someone who is well matched with you. |
You live in a dream world if you think holding out on sex is fair to your partner. I really can't blame someone for cheating unless there is a medical issue going on. Some women just assume their spouse will love them and be loyal no matter what and focus their attention instead on shopping, children, home decorating, etc. instead of their husbands. It's true to a certain extent but human beings have needs. We have friends for non-sexual relationships. |
No selective quoting please. You ignored my earlier comment in that post where I said there is a middle ground! And there is. You want to alleviate the pressure from the spouse. Make a promise and suggest a compromise. See, MOST reasonable people could deal with getting sex on the regular - even if that "regular" is once or twice a month. It is the uncertainly coupled with rejection that leads to resentment. If a DW told her DH "Honey, I am not going to have sex 3 times a week because of all we have going on with the kids, etc. But once or 2x a month, I am going to knock your socks off because you are still desirable and I want to stay connected." Most men and women I know could live with that. Look at this way, your spouse finds you attractive and desirable. I have been married for a long time so I may be out of touch, but I did not realize people think that is a problem. |
I cannot find the original quote, but I did try this. However H "does not feel the passion" from me and it takes us nowhere... |
For many once or twice a week would be a dream come true! Many people are dealing with spouses who only want sex very, very infrequently and who otherwise reject intimacy with their spouse on a regular basis. |
And you live in a dream world if you think the other spouse will be happy constantly having to give in to their spouse on this issue. Why are the needs of the high-libido partner more important? There are two sides to this issue yet you seem to only recognize the validity of one. |
If it's that horrible having sex with your spouse you need to divorce. |
There should be a compromise on both sides. That is what DH and I worked out. I have the higher libido and the rejection and all of that was starting to ruin our relationship. Give and take on both sides. |