If she doesn't want sex, Why would she start a thread for pointers? |
I think you may have hit the nail on the head here. |
So she could tell her H, look, many other couples with teenagers at home are not having sex frequently, either. |
Meh. Doesn't bother me. More power to 'em. |
She wants to be reassured that it's impossible and it's OK for her to give up. |
Are you people really this stupid? No one here has said they want their kids to hear them have sex. They are saying it isn't the end of the world if it happens rarely. They are saying not to avoid sex because you might be heard. I've heard my parents before not a big deal hardly the traumatic experience you and others have made it out to be. I don't really care if my parents hear us. We don't try for it but we don't avoid sex for fear it might happen |
Once a month sounds pretty good. |
The above could easily be my wife.... ![]() |
At this point I would love to be getting it once a month. --sex-starved H |
Put a pillow over her face so that neither you nor the kids will be inconvenienced by her screams, and go to it. |
To quote my favorite Christmas movie, "Welcome to the party, pal." It's a pretty big club. |
This is a complicated issue. Of course, we want our kids to know that healthy marriages involve sex. That doesn't mean we're OK with them hearing us have sex! I don't want *anyone* to hear me have sex, least of all other members of my family.
Frankly, when I was growing up, my family had a do-not-speak-of-sex-at-all environment, but my parents would nonetheless often get drunk and have very loud sex. Their door was closed. But in my mind I can still hear my mother's sounds. They were that loud--easily audible way down the hallway. For me, as a teenager, it was a very disturbing set of mixed messages--that sex is something we never talk about with you in any way, but we're going to get drunk and have loud moaning sex that surely we must know you can hear. SO....OP, here is my advice for you. Go bed shopping. Beds are reviewed online for how "quiet" they are. Put on music, fans, loud TV. Routinely get "tired" early in the evening and tell your kids you guys are turning in early. I think as long as you make real efforts to be quiet, any stray sound they hear would be OK. But even in houses where families discuss sexuality in a healthy, normal way, I don't think teenage kids want to routinely hear their parents have sex so you should make an effort to be quiet if they are in the house. |
Some teens are weirded out by seeing their parents kiss. Parents should be sure to avoid kissing and hide it as much as possible.
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It just occurred to me that most teenagers aren't going to hear anything anyway, because they always have earbuds in. All this fuss about nothing.
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I would never allow our teens to hear us having sex, although they do know that we do; we're married adults for crying out loud. They know about sex from school, movies etc. but I don't want that picture of us in their heads.
We often go in the bathroom or like others have said, turn the tv up. |