Anonymous wrote:I think about how it could affect the kids which is why I am super careful about not getting caught. You can ask my spouse why spouse thinks neglecting the marriage won't affect the kids.

Anonymous wrote:I think about how it could affect the kids which is why I am super careful about not getting caught. You can ask my spouse why spouse thinks neglecting the marriage won't affect the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Sexless guy... you actually described yourself being trained by your wife not to have sex. Have you no self respect? What you dont understand is that your wife is happy with the situation. Your wife is totally fine staying in a sexless marriage. I dont know her, so I cant say why she likes this arrangement but it is clear she does. YOU are the one who is unhappy. You can say her behavior is forcing you to respond with an undesirable behavior l, but that just makes you look like an immature child. He hit me first!!! Stop allowing yourself to be treated like a dog. Until you stand up for yourself, express what you need, and have the spine to follow through and pursue the kind of life you want, you will continue to be a woman-hating bitter sexless rageaholoc who argues with strangers on the internet that your wife forced you to (fill in the blank with the undesirable behavior.. cheat, use drugs, beat her, kick the dog, etc.) No one buys wht you are selling. No one. Not a single person has said "omg, you are right... it is MY fault my husband cheated because I clearly forced him. He had no other options, really, and now I'm going to fix things by havi g lots more sex with him."

Yes to this, mostly. Sexless guy's problem is he isn't actually cheating as is bitter that he doesn't have the courage to do so. I know the mentality because I used to stew in a low sex marriage and rage internally that this would be the cause of my cheating. Once I actually found another woman to have sex with, the rage lifted.

Anonymous wrote:Sexless guy... you actually described yourself being trained by your wife not to have sex. Have you no self respect? What you dont understand is that your wife is happy with the situation. Your wife is totally fine staying in a sexless marriage. I dont know her, so I cant say why she likes this arrangement but it is clear she does. YOU are the one who is unhappy. You can say her behavior is forcing you to respond with an undesirable behavior l, but that just makes you look like an immature child. He hit me first!!! Stop allowing yourself to be treated like a dog. Until you stand up for yourself, express what you need, and have the spine to follow through and pursue the kind of life you want, you will continue to be a woman-hating bitter sexless rageaholoc who argues with strangers on the internet that your wife forced you to (fill in the blank with the undesirable behavior.. cheat, use drugs, beat her, kick the dog, etc.) No one buys wht you are selling. No one. Not a single person has said "omg, you are right... it is MY fault my husband cheated because I clearly forced him. He had no other options, really, and now I'm going to fix things by havi g lots more sex with him."

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Anonymous wrote:https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cheaters-keep-sleeping-half-affair-120512091.html?guccounter=1

Cheating website Illicit Encounters quizzed 1,000 of its users and found that two thirds of cheaters keep having sex with their original partners as they carry out their affairs.

Only 15% of participants said they stopped having sex with their partners entirely when cheating, and most of those had stopped having sex with their other halves before the affair anyway.

Only a fifth (21%) had less sex with their spouses, while 64% kept up their usual sex routine.

What is the normal routine and are respondents satisfied with the normal routine?

Anonymous wrote:https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cheaters-keep-sleeping-half-affair-120512091.html?guccounter=1

Cheating website Illicit Encounters quizzed 1,000 of its users and found that two thirds of cheaters keep having sex with their original partners as they carry out their affairs.

Only 15% of participants said they stopped having sex with their partners entirely when cheating, and most of those had stopped having sex with their other halves before the affair anyway.

Only a fifth (21%) had less sex with their spouses, while 64% kept up their usual sex routine.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's say this again: much, much cheating takes place in marriages where sex is freely available but for whatever reason, no longer thrills.

Agreed. You failed to mention this category of cheating is dominated by wives who reject their husband but seek out the interesting new guy.

So let's be clear on this specific point: the LARGE MAJORITY of men cheating takes place in marriages where sex is rare due to an uninterested wife.

We don't really know who dominates which category.

As a formerly single girl I can tell you that it isn't true. Most married guys who propositioned me were open about the fact that they lost interest in having sex with their wives because "I'm bored having sex with the same person for 20 years", "she doesn't look the same way", "I can't do these things to the mother of my children", "I love my wife but am not wired for monogamy", etc. Not infrequently, their APs were shocked by the news of the wife's new pregnancy - which I think illustrates quite clearly that the stories of the sexless marriage are quite oversold by the cheating husbands.

My DH have been cheating on me for a few years during which sex in the marital bed was freely available. A new body is a new body, can't compete with that.

There are numerous scientific research based studies proving that women get sexually bored in marriage far more than men. So yeah, we really do know who dominates the category.
Nobody here has claimed that all men with good sex at home don't cheat. The assertion is this is a fairly small percentage of men cheaters, most of whom get very little sex at home.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like there are basically two types of people on these threads. Those who think sex is an important part of a healthy marriage just like love and companionship and those who think its optional like going without wine or your favorite food, something people enjoy but not particularly important. Everything after that is basically a justification for that belief.

Seems like there are basically two types of people on these threads. Those who think sex is a need like food and oxygen... and those that think it is like every other emotional need, they are
important but not a deal breaker. Sometimes it's plenty, sometimes it's not.

If sex is unimportant to you, not a deal breaker that is perfectly fine .... so long as fidelity is also unimportant to you, not a deal breaker.
This thread attracts lots of angry sexless wives who take the hypocritical position that fidelity is a deal breaker but sex is optional. And they are shocked and outraged when their sex needing husbands go elsewhere. Sorry it doesn't work your way. Either both (sex and fidelity) are important, or neither can be.