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Many couples are trapped in sexless marriages
The Daily Mail ^ | 07/03/2017 | Monique Roffey

Posted on 09/30/2017 12:49:02 PM PDT by BJ1

But slowly, over the course of six years, our physical relationship dwindled to nothing. I buried it because I had no idea how to talk about it, let alone fix it. Those years were pre-internet and pre-social media; I couldn’t simply tap my problem into Google and find answers.

It’s agonising to be in a relationship full of love and lacking in sex. It’s a tragedy, in fact, or it was for me. And a sexless relationship carries a lot of shame. Just as having too much sex is taboo, so is having none.

I kept quiet. Instead, my repressed sexuality took on a life of its own, and I dreamed of sexy trysts with other men, and, being a writer, these dreams went down on paper in the form of a novel, The Tryst, published later this week.

Of course, we split up, eventually. When a couple isn’t having sex, especially a younger couple, the frustrated energy has to go somewhere. It usually ends up going outside the relationship, and it did.

He had an affair — galling, given our situation — and that was the end of things. I was 41. I ran away and regrouped. What followed was a decade of sexual seeking and exploration, a campaign of self-education.

My mission was never again to fall into this no-sex relationship trap. What had happened and why? I was determined to find out. I allowed myself to be a guinea pig, and took many bold and courageous leaps. In doing so I tried everything, and today, aged 52, I’m much more sexually confident.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: coldfish; deadinbed; freepersare; genderwars; marriage; men; single; women
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To: AppyPappy

I suggest you break off contact, she’ll be stealing from you before long.


61 posted on 09/30/2017 1:58:04 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Jeff Chandler
Yep. Hasn't a clue.

That was her assessment too. The basic theme of the article.

I’m not a psychotherapist, and in retrospect I hardly knew myself sexually, so I didn’t give it much thought. ... What had happened and why? I was determined to find out.

62 posted on 09/30/2017 1:59:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

I’m totally old school after learning the hard way that he needed me to be that.

And I found great joy there. It’s nothing like what feminism prepared me for and I spent the first ten years thinking I was his partner in the sense of careers and things like that.

Once I got a clue, we were soooo much happier. I’m going to the mat for him in every situation there is.


63 posted on 09/30/2017 2:00:23 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Click on my profile page to find out why Alabama rejects Luther Strange!)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Got any single female friends who believe similarly, lol?


64 posted on 09/30/2017 2:03:40 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: neverevergiveup

Very well said.


65 posted on 09/30/2017 2:03:59 PM PDT by ytrebil
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To: RegulatorCountry

She lives 120 miles away. She had alcohol-induced dementia. Stealing is impossible. She’s basically an advanced Alzheimer’s case that lives outside a facility.

She would sit on her stoop and drink wine while smoking and was fascinated because men would stop and talk to her. When I go back home, I take her out walking just to get her out of the house where she lives with her special needs son who thankfully works.


66 posted on 09/30/2017 2:08:18 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: ytrebil

My wife and I solved this problem on our wedding day when we both said “I do.”

She is my wife, my lover, my confidant, my friend. We have treated each other this way for 28 years.


67 posted on 09/30/2017 2:08:45 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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To: BJ1

I feel bad (/s) for the creeps on this thread when they become physically unable. Don’t think it’ll happen? Good f’luck.


68 posted on 09/30/2017 2:12:48 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: RegulatorCountry

And to catch you up, there is very little help for dementia patients below 60 years old. It’s like it doesn’t exist.

Her brother-in-law went into a facility at age 48 for CTE Dementia.


69 posted on 09/30/2017 2:13:53 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Unfortunately I don’t. But if (God forbid) I’m ever widowed, I’ll look you up.

Aside from that pesky Jefferson/Hemmings issues I think we’d be pretty like minded.

But let me brag on my husband and how my change of attitude changed him. Today I was cleaning the bathroom and he walked down the hall. He’s been watching college football so I’m just going about my little chores.

He sees me holding the back of toilet cover (I was dropping on of those little bleach thingies in there), and he stops dead in his tracks and says, “Baby, don’t lift that, let me get that for you.”

I’m not by nature a submissive person. But once I started submitting in my marriage, my life changed so very much.

He needed me to need him, and once I figured that out, he became the man of my dreams, instead of the guy I was wishing would change.

I’m blessed beyond measure. God blessed me also with a baby after 12 years of infertility. And NOTHING changed but my attitude.

So I’m starting to realize that I’m getting a little preachy here, but I totally believe in letting men be men, honoring the position in the family and submitting. I’m all about making him happy.


70 posted on 09/30/2017 2:16:23 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Click on my profile page to find out why Alabama rejects Luther Strange!)
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To: BJ1

Those guys are as bad as the communists and other leftists.

Maybe worse for society even.


71 posted on 09/30/2017 2:16:34 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Good observations.

This article was not what it purports to be about.


72 posted on 09/30/2017 2:18:46 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Great post.


73 posted on 09/30/2017 2:18:49 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: VanDeKoik

“For HER it is.

When a guy looks at the whole set-up critically, they wonder “why the hell am I signing up for this to live with a roommate?”.”

Sad and clueless.


74 posted on 09/30/2017 2:21:17 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

>>>Those guys are as bad as the communists and other leftists.

Maybe worse for society even.<<<

Reform the system if u want mgtow to go away. It will only grow as milk is now a nearly free commodity. Divorce rape is real. Family courts hate men. Them there are just facts.


75 posted on 09/30/2017 2:22:13 PM PDT by BJ1
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To: sparklite2

“Really? Too much sex is a taboo? Tell us, dear,
how much sex does a proper couple have?”

One of these days the government will tell us. Obama just didnt get around to it.


76 posted on 09/30/2017 2:22:48 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: VanDeKoik
Yes, I do know about them, and they are wimpy nancy buys.

And yes, they are feminist tools, because they have let feminist use them to enact their agenda. Feminists wants men and women not to get married, and want to destroy traditional values and families. MGTOW are feminist tools in that agenda.

And MGTOW are near the top of the list in helping to make this into a Muslim country, so you can thank them for that, too.

77 posted on 09/30/2017 2:23:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: raybbr

“Did you miss the part where her husband cheated on her”

I womder why? The beast has to be fed.


78 posted on 09/30/2017 2:23:54 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: neverevergiveup

“Your description of marriage is actually prostitution.”

Some people are moronic. And are essentially the same as sodomites.

Nothing a dose of Holy Spirit wouldn’t cure.

It’d be worth it for them to learn just how great the love between man and woman can be. They claim to like women.


79 posted on 09/30/2017 2:24:01 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: TigersEye
That was her assessment too. The basic theme of the article.

My point is after all her screwing around she still doesn't have a clue about love and marriage. Although she could probably write a book about sex. Oh, I see she did.

80 posted on 09/30/2017 2:25:25 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (https://imgoat.com/uploads/645920e395/39513.gif)
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