You are a divorcee. No one need to take advice on marriage from you. Your failure? That’s another cautionary tale!! |
Not sure if reading comprehension is your strong suit but I bolded the part of the PP's post that you seem to have missed.
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Agreed. |
I have been with my spouse for 34 years. Married 30 years. I feel the same. And when you successfuly raise kids, it is very satisfying to look at each other and go “wow! We did it” |
You are deeply in need of good sex. It has amazing benefits to the mind and body. |
Some people want to do more in this life than just survive. |
O.K. let's run with that--using your example of being washed up alone on a desert island. In addition to not needing sex, (according to your definition of "need",) the castway wouldn't need: 1. A house with a roof over her head. You can just make a little shelter out of palm tree branches. 2. Running water, or plumbing. You can just look for natural sources of rain water and take a dump in a hole in the ground. 3. Grocery stores. You can just eat bugs, plants, and raw fish or seagulls. 4. Birthday cake for your 40th birthday. Shall I go on? |
You don't know even a single heterosexual couple where "both parties are ok with no sex after 25 years". I mean, in real life. You fabricated a ridiculous hypothetical as an excuse for your own neurotic asexuality. |
Well, sure, but that doesn’t make it a need, any more than any other pleasurable but non-life sustaining activity. |
Many people do not live in houses. I listed food and water as necessities. Birthday cake is nice but you can get along without it. Your entire argument is pretty bad and much of it dovetails with what I said. |
Let us all know when you give your house away to charity and by the way how do you get mail delivered to the bridge you are going to be living under. Thanks for playing. |
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In age gap relationships*, the younger, hotter person has all the power.
*celebrity relationships don’t count. |
It's a need for my marriage (aside from during times with severe health issues, that either of us seeking treatment for). |
+1. When your focus is on your sex life, eventually you are going to be disappointed: hormones shift, erectile dysfunction, weight fluctuations, etc….enjoy sex, but if it’s the summit of what you need for happiness, brace for impact. |
I only had 3 partners including my exH before getting married. With each we took STD tests, only used protection for the first few times until both were certain we don’t date others. They pulled out and I was on birth control after. Has oral and anal very early soon after STD test. Sex happened after 1-2 months of dating and introducing BFs to my family and getting my family approval. It was in Eastern Europe 25 years ago. Met my exH at 24 after two other long term relationships. But here in the US men expect sex after 3 dates, use condoms (which don’t even protect against all STDs). They want oral of course but I can’t force myself to enjoy it this way. |