it is very damaging to the self esteem to constantly be the one to try and initiate sex and it is even worse when they aren’t interested. it is a rejection. to me, it doesn’t matter how we said it, what he intended, it is a rejection. it hurts so badly. i gave up years ago on initiating, but i can’t seem to give up on the fact that it may happen if only he would do something about it. we don’t know what the problem is, he says he wants it fixed (although he says not as badly as i seem to want to) but he doesn’t know how to fix it.
there is 10 years in our agesl. i am 36, he is 46.. when we met i was 23 and he was 33… it wasn’t any better then than now… the only difference is that i have stopped trying for it. we used to have huge screaming matches, i would make him doctors appointments, he wouldn’t show up for them. most damaging, are the things he said to me in those early days, blaming me in grotesque ways i cannot even type out. we tried counselling and a whole slew of different drugs.
the last time we saw the doctor about it he said he could give him viagara. it wouldn’t give him the urge, but would give him the ability and he could be the tool to get me off, that way i would at least be satisfied. he wouldn’t do it. he still won’t.
we haven’t had sex in around 9 years.
if women say they want sex, they are whores.. men say it and their ‘normal’. mind you, when the man doesn’t want it, there aren’t many supports in place. they are supposed to want it. where do they go if they don’t? all the drugs out there are to treat men who want it but can’t and are desperate for it.. there isnt anything for men who just don’t feel the urge, and then what is the need for the them to go and find out what it wrong? because there is not urge for sex, there is no urge to fix it. vicious cycle.