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Hello all. I'm really not sure where to post my story. There is so many categories it could fall into it. But here goes. First you should probably know that I was always very sexually active. I sort of feel like I might have became semi addicted to sex, with my ex while we were together. My ex cheated on me every other day with different women, yet I stayed, and he still managed to have sex with me at least twice a day for at least 2 hours at a time. The most was 6 hours at a time. Then we finally broke up and he's completely out of the picture. But that gives you the idea of what I have been accustomed to. Now I'm with my current boyfriend. He's in his late 20's. I love him. He's perfect for me in almost everyway. The first 3 months we had sex every Friday and Saturday night. Then we moved in together. First week we had sex every night, then just on Friday and Saturday night for the rest of the first month, then just once a week for the second month, then only once every other week for the third month, then once the fourth month, then no sex for 4 months, then sex once a month for 2 months, and now we're back to having not had sex in 4 months. I have not had sex this year. He has ED, he also has meds for that in which he refuses to take. He will not do anything sexual for me, he will not allow me to attempt to seduce him. He literally runs away from me. He tells me it's not me, it's him. Says he doesn't know what is wrong that he just never has any desire for sex. The absolute most he has done is slap my butt in passing. He says he isn't and hasn't cheated, it's difficult for me to accept because I've always been cheated on, but I've always been sexually satisfied in the time of it, and because I can account for my guys location at all times, I'm actually inclined to believe him. He's also an alcoholic, I've read that can also decrease sex drive, but my ex was an alcoholic too, and he never failed to please. And he swears he isn't masturbating. And that actually scares me. I feel like if he's not getting it from me he needs to be getting it somewhere. I'm scared for his sexual well being as much as my own. I've been self pleasing to the point of bruising myself. So now I've been spending money I shouldn't be spending on toys to counter act that. My guy is very vanilla, even when we were having sex, he's against toys, in any way shape or form. He hasn't and won't do anal. But he's terrific with positioning, and he's really good at what he does do, when he was doing it. Of course he has never lasted as long as my ex, but I am honestly okay with that. I just need sex. I need it to feel loved. To know that this relationship is going strong. He rejects any advances, makes excuses for why he doesn't want to try, or just flat out explains he is not interested in sex. I can not fathom this. How can anybody love somebody and not wanna express it physically? And what do I do? Stay in the relationship and just wait to see if it gets better? What if he never has sex with me, ever? I've never been a cheat, I don't want to get it somewhere else. I've tried changing my appearance. I've lost weight. I've got a thigh gap and my hip bones poke out. I'm an hourglass. I've got a D cup. I've got long hair. Ive glammed up. He used to say that me not getting everything done in a day was keeping him from sex. So I've managed to be able to have the kid in the bed early and the house clean and me in the bed even before him and he just climbs in and lays quiet. We're like bert and ernie. I haven't seen his manhood in so long I can't even remember what it looks like. He won't let me see it or touch it. He still talks of marriage. I love him so much but I'm hurting so bad from rejection. My anxiety is destroying me over this. I keep thinking he's either cheating or trying to leave or find a plan b or thinks I'm hideous because why else refuse me? I honestly don't anticipate him ever wanting sex again. And if he did offer I'm not sure what I would do, I sort of feel like being bitchy and declining, to give him a taste of his own medicine. But I'm so weak, I would probably just be thrilled. I am a rather boring person, except in the sack. But he doesn't want me in the sack, so instead he makes random jokes about me being a granny or tells me I'm like his mom. For about a month, over Christmas he complained with the way I did everything. I changed everything to how he wanted it. Still no sex. Hes not rich, im not staying for money, i truly love this man, but i need sex. Does anybody have any ideas or advise or anything?
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Look at what my best friend did with my picture!
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We all have 24 hours in a day. How we spend these hours is important. Watching a little bit of a video about how sitting affects us made me aware of how much sitting and laying down I do. Gonna have to work on that.Your turn. Tell me another truth.
When you first met, you could have been a temporary distraction , but now he is back to his old self with sadness and depression.
Whether he’s abusive or not, when you are enmeshed with an alcoholic, it normalizes dysfunction and it changes the non alcoholic in the relationship.
This just sounds like a miserable situation for both of you.
Next, as wakan states, your sex drives are completely diametrically opposed. You are an extremely high drive person, with a penchant for kink. He is a vanilla ( if you can even call him that, since he doesn't even seemed interested in vanilla sex) extremely low drive person. Like lower than the whale feces on the bottom of the ocean low drive.
Not only that, he tried to shift the blame for his low drive onto you, claiming it was the stuff you weren't getting done during the day. You don't need that.
I'm going to give it to you straight. This man is never going to be into sex. He's never going to be into kink. He runs away from you, for God's sakes! It really is him, not you. I can't imagine why you would want to stay in this shitty situation, and subject your child to a terrible role model.
Please, please, please... Get out.
And like I said, he's not going to be sexual with you. This is his default. Most couples tend to be more sexual in the initial stages of relationship. But, eventually the parties default to their natural state. You are high drive, he is low drive. You are never going to make him high drive.
The fact that he fetches you blankets and doesn't abuse you still indicates to me that you need some counseling. Your bar is set way too low.
I'm curious, how long have you known each other?
A year-and-a-half is not really that long. He's just now been falling into who he really is with you. I wouldn't move in with anybody before I knew them for a year-and-a-half.
He's in his twenties, and he has erectile dysfunction already. This is the real him. Trust me, like your ex, there are other high drive people out there. I'm a high drive person as well, and I couldn't stand the situation you are in right now. I could have sex multiple times a day, every day.
I have been on this planet for a long time, and I'm telling you right now, this is as good as it gets with him. There is not anything you can do to increase his desire for you.
As one high drive person to another, you know how important it is to feel that somebody really wants you. This guy is never going to be that person. You are too young to hang up your sex life. I'm in my 50s, and I wouldn't hang up my sex life at my age!
If you are still with him in a year or two, I guarantee that the sex will have dropped off even more.
I wish I had better news for you, but you can't change a person's basic drive. A lot of it is just plain hormones and biology.
There is nothing wrong with a high sex drive. I am right there with you. However, there appears to be a lot more going on.
Sending positivity, love, and compassion.
Many Blessings.