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My wife and I are in our 60s, very active and in good health. We haven’t had sex in over a year and a half because of my wife’s lack of interest. I would like to ask her if we’ll ever have a sex life again, but she has a hard time talking about it.
We’ve been married almost 40 years and neither of us had any sex partners before we met. I’ve always wanted sex more than she has, though the first years were pretty satisfying for both of us. She started losing interest when our children were young—she’d be OK with sex once or twice a month, and only when she was in the mood.
When she was in the mood, my wife really enjoyed sex and had great orgasms, but that mood hit less and less frequently. I finally became frustrated with being turned down and just waited for her to initiate sex. She didn’t. So our sex lives dwindled until around 15 years ago she realized a more regular sex life might be a good thing. For a short time she’d schedule sex once a week whether or not she felt like it—but then menopause hit and sex dwindled again, diminishing to once or twice a year until we stopped having sex altogether.
I’ve read about vaginal atrophy and would guess she has it. We used lubricant but it still wasn’t very effective the last time. She’s been mostly dry since a few years before menopause.
As far as foreplay goes, either I don’t know how to do it or she doesn’t like to be touched unless she is in the mood. The most affection I can show without her being irritated is spooning for a short period when we’re in bed — I’d better not move my hands to caress her! — and hugs when one of us leaves the house. I’ve tried suggesting a date, but it’s hard to find something she wants to do or doesn’t cost too much.
There are always two sides to a story, and I don’t want to paint her as an uncaring wife. I know at times she’s felt my touching was just for sex, and at times she was right. She told me a few years ago that she felt sorry for me because of her lack of sexual desire. But at this point I don’t think her interest in sex will ever revive, so what would your advice be? Should I ask her what our sex future will be? How should I phrase it? Or should I just accept her celibacy and masturbate when I need release? —Frustrated
Joan Price Responds
I read the frustration and despair in your story and I thank you for being willing to share it here. I can understand why you’re anxious about talking to your wife about this, but communication is the only way you’ll get out of this impasse. The subtle ways – dates, touching, hoping – haven’t worked and although years have passed, neither of you really understands yet how the other feels. Since I don’t know your wife and I don’t know anything about your conversational style or hers, I can’t give you the magic words for getting the conversation started. Here are some possible openings – finesse one or more of these to fit your comfort and style:
- I really miss the intimacy we used to have when we were sexual. Can we please talk about how we each feel about sex in our relationship?
- We seem to have fallen into a marriage without sex. I love you, but I am not happy this way. Would you be willing to see a therapist with me to learn how to talk about this?
- I realize that I really don’t know your reasons for not wanting to be sexual with me – whether it hurts you, or there’s something I’m doing or not doing. I’d like to hear how you feel.
I strongly suggest that you see a sex therapist (find one in your location) or a sex-savvy counselor for guidance. Therapy will help you identify the issues underlying the lack of sex, teach you how to communicate more effectively, give you strategies for regaining your intimacy if she’s willing, and tools for coping if she’s not, and offer you the boost you need to work on your relationship.
You’re guessing that your wife might have vaginal atrophy, but you don’t know. Have you asked whether she experienced vaginal pain during sex? If it’s just dryness—which is common as women age—as well as using lubricant you’ll also want to be sure that your wife is aroused, even before any genital touching.
If your wife thinks she may have vaginal atrophy, I hope she’ll see a knowledgeable doctor or pelvic floor therapist to get a diagnosis and treatment plan that can alleviate her discomfort. There are many reasons for vaginal pain, if indeed that’s what she’s experiencing, and getting the right medical help is essential.
You talk about your wife not being “in the mood.” That’s an elusive state when we’re not driven by our hormones. It’s important to understand the difference between spontaneous desire and responsive desire. As I explained before on seniorplanet.org, spontaneous desire just happens, while responsive desire only happens after a woman’s body starts getting aroused. Most women, especially in our age group, only experience responsive desire. That means you could wait forever for your wife to just want sex. But maybe if she’s willing to try your weekly sex date again, she might find that once you’ve aroused her, the mood sails in. (You might want to share with her an excellent resource about responsive desire, Emily Nagoski’s book “Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life.”)
That said, you should also think about how you’re trying to arouse your wife. You say you don’t know if you’re doing foreplay right. If you go too directly and/or too soon to her vulva before she’s aroused, she’ll likely just want to withdraw. I don’t know if that’s what’s happening for her, and of course the only way to know is to ask her. Working with a therapist will help you learn to ask her how she prefers to be touched and help empower her to guide you.
You’ve both gone so long without sex together and without understanding each other that it isn’t an easy fix. But don’t give up! If she’s willing, find a therapist who will help you and your wife talk about this and really listen to each other—and if she won’t go, go on your own. Even without your wife, seeing a therapist will help you learn how to communicate with her, and give you new ways of looking at your marriage and strategies for coping. Meanwhile, I encourage you to keep masturbating. It’s good for your general health, your sexual health and your sense of well-being. There’s nothing wrong with giving yourself sexual pleasure. I wish you the best.
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COMMENTS
399 responses to “How to Deal with a Sexless Marriage”
I don’t trust women or people for that matter. There was a time in my life that I did, but that melted away. I am 55 and have accepted my fate to live and die lonely and perhaps homeless. To be so concerned about sex is shortsighted.
I happened to return to this page to see 392 comments! I appreciate your candor and vulnerability in sharing your stories. You’ll see that this is a topic that recurs frequently in my column. Please, one request: be kind to each other. This needs to be a safe space for people to share. You can disagree without blaming, shaming, or assigning fault.
Stop giving advise like talking or communication it’s useless, if talking or communicating can change the situation we wont be reading this articles, google around and you get what i mean. Dint you read? Dint you go through what he’s trying to interpret? How many times he mwntion they talked even the wife said she feel sorry.
67 years old married to wife for 45 years, still very much love her. She was unable to consummate our marriage for 6 month, only did so as was advised the marriage was terminal if she didn’t. She does participate, but its very bland vanilla sex. The most common response is ‘there’s a body inside’ which means behave and its all off limits. We cant discuss it as she immediately breaks down in tears and self accusation. I’m now reconciled, I masturbate regularly, unfortunately Porn is leading to ED
I am a 60 year old woman who has been married to her only sexual partner for 38 years. I am responding to these comments as the person who doesn’t want sex nearly as much as my husband. It is certainly a huge frustration to him. That being said, we’ve had sex at least 2-3 times per week most of our marriage because the church taught me it was my duty, and husbands leave when they don’t get enough sex. Women need intimacy and care that is not physical, and no one wants to talk about that.
Then find a forum that talks about women’s need for intimacy and care. But this is a forum about sexless marriages.
Really? That’s your answer, that this forum is not about women’s need for intimacy and care?? That is probably one of the major reasons why women don’t like sex!!! Because SEX gets done the way the MAN wants it. Tell me, would YOU want sex if you only had a 30% chance of having an orgasm? I doubt it. My husband gets frustrated and irritated if I take too long (in his mind) to orgasm. He has for years. So, I fake it. He does not actually care whether I am happy or not.
Then initiate intimacy. All of it starts & ends with you. How many times does a women have to say, “I’m not in the mood, Will you stop!” before he stops all together. Then she complains, “He never pays attention to me.” Why do women pick bad boys knowing they don’t make good husbands/fathers?
I have no idea what “church” or “religion” teaches that sex is an “obligation”. Not every religion that claims to be Christian actually follows Christ. His Word is made clear in the bible, and it says NOTHING about obligation, and it talks A LOT about how a husband should care for his wife. If either of you are doing these things out of obligation and not love, you are missing the point completely! You seriously need to find a bible church that is not tainted with the phony, man-made falsehoods
It is an expectation in Bible that covers this
However Sex somewhere else in marriage is fair to agree with the spouse
or marriage deteriorates further
Bible states be fruitful and other stuff . Marriage vows also cover it
with this body i will honour etc
YEP
Men have needs as well
let him find some elsewhere as without his needs filling your marriage deteriorates
A
My wife had a complete Radical Hysterectomy 15 years ago. You can talk psychological all you want. Removing Ovaries and Uterus is Female Castration. Try cutting off you’re testicles and see if you want sex. Estrogen and Testosterone are vital hormones for the human body. She now has osteoarthritis. That gyno lied to my face, said nothing would change. She also didn’t tell my wife that by losing the uterus she would shorten the vagina by 2″ inches. Now I’m too big for her.
Unless it’s a health issue. There’s no excuse for killing the marriage if they dont care about it, get a side piece or leave
Jonathan,
In France, we take on lovers when our partners no longer want sex. I respect a persons right to no longer want sex, regardless of the reason. But respect is a two way street. It is cruel to force another human being into a sexless life.
There is a big difference between love and sex. I love my wife, always have and always will. Sex is still important to me and needed. Taking on a lover with no strings attached is a perfect middle ground. We have sex, I go home, and love my wife.
Having 25 years of marriage, I’m 59 and she’s 50. Sex became an issue a couple years after my wife had an affair about 10 years ago. We fixed our issues and our marriage improved greatly until about 5 years ago when excuses became more regular. We’ve had a sexless marriage for over a year and that’s because I tired of asking and getting excuses. I told her if I have to live like a monk I’m moving out so I don’t have to see what I can’t have every day. That was 3 months ago with 3 left.
Wow…glad to see Im not alone in the journey, but sad for all of us that are on this journey. 53 yo and my wife shut down approximately 4 years ago. She went through menopause and has dryness but she refuses to see a dr. I have tried to talk about our sex life and what Im feeling ( as all good therapists say to do) and she just replies yes I know we need to have sex more for a healthy marriage but then she turns around and refuses sex . At this point thinking a fwb is my best option!
I think sometimes a FWB is the right way to go. Best to talk to the partner. My situation is the same as mine but also that my partner is an alchoholic with developing health problems and she refuses to see physicians and counselors. She retired during Covid and it just made it worse.
I’ve found it calming to read through these comments and know that I’m not alone, thank you. I’m 57 . My wife stopped wanting sex after we had kids 20 years ago. I still love my wife and she shows in many ways that she still loves me. We talk which helps a lot but will not lead to change. I think my wife lost her desire for me when I did not help around the house enough/respond to her needs and I get that. But the rejection still after all these years is constantly painful.
May try not to think of it as her rejecting you. Her lack of desire might have nothing to do with you and everything to do with her and how she is feeling inside her own heady and body. It might tear her up emotionally to know she can’t make you happy this way, you taking it as a personal slight will not miraculously reinstate sexual desire.
My wife started to refuse a few weeks into the marriage 36 years ago. Once every couple of months before 2000, about three or four times this century.
It used to make me very angry but then I just accepted it. The positive side of it is that, although I always act as a reasonable person ,she has zero leverage over me. This way I have all the advantages of maintaining family happy relationships without all the emotional baggage. In many ways the apparent misfortune has made me stronger.
Having read all the comments from older men ,i realise that I’m not alone ,its actually quite common . I became so frustrated at hearing” it’s my body” That I exploded one night ,and said . yes and its the one I promised to reamin faithful to and have for 40 years . but no more . If you won’t spare me 10 minutes . once a month , then I will find somebody who will , she has never refused since . although it’s always rushed and very mechanical …
How romantic forcing someone into something like that no wonder she’s not interested . Sex does not equal love
Sex for men is different from sex for women. If we are not intimate for an extended time it is physically uncomfortable and I can’t sleep or relax. Though I love my wife very dearly and love being with her every day I physically need sex in order to relax my body. No sex makes me very uncomforable and I can’t sleep. I suppose the reasonable alternative to a sexless marriage is to just divorce and find someone that is willing to be intimate but I love my wife’s company and I want her! HELP!
Please do not judge what you don’t understand. No, sex does not equal love, but if we have agreed to monogomy, sex mattaers a great deal.
He didn’t force her into anything. She was offered a choice and she made it. This is two people making bad choices about how to resolve the most important part of a married relationship. If my wife had no interest in finding a loving solution, I would give her some choices. 1) work with me to fix it 2) leave 3) or you can have your platonic life and I will get my jollies elsewhere. I personally have no interest in having sex with a woman who has no interest in me, so that’s NOT a choice.
For a man, sex DOES equal love.
Love is just oxytocin. Women get oxytocin from conversation, attention and shared experiences. Men get oxytocin from sex and being desired. That’s not a choice, it’s nature.
I totally understand your frustration. My husband is the same way. Unless someone has struggled to cope, they cannot understand. I married 42 years ago without understanding how very low his sex drive was.
I have the same problem over 20 years without sex I am looking for fab and see what happens. I retired almost 3 years and I wish I was still working full time. Also in February of this year I had a quadruple bypass surgery.we get along ok but I hate living in the same place with my wife of a wasted 35 years.
I understand that all too well. My husband has always had a lower sex drive than me and now at 55 he has ED. He refuses to seek help. I’m at a loss, we talk and make plans but sadly nothing changes with our set life.
Why are people defending this. Telling your wife you’ll cheat on her if she refuses sex with you is emotional manipulation and basically coerced consent which borders on rape. Notice how she isn’t genuinely enjoying it. She might even have a health issue and you decided raging at her was a good idea. No wonder why you’re in an unhappy relationship
This really sucks. I’m 69 and still active. She’s not. Hasn’t been for 15 years. She’s sorry, but I love her and say it’s ok. But it isn’t. And I suffer. I’m affectionate and do everything, but “I’m tired… ” So I turn to porn and search things that include “wife.” And that’s where I get my relief. I’ve considered a fuck-buddy, but I can’t do that to her. I love her. I read this article, and it sounds easy to find therapy/solutions. It isn’t. I’m really suffering.
Wow…. I’m in the same mess.
Ditto, married 46 years and miserable with our sex life. Take her on dates and vacations and dinner all the time.. Seems she leaves me no other choce but porn and masterbation ( thinking of her) there is no other choice by a FB and she doesnt pick up on that when she constantly reject me. How does she expect me to handle it?
Seems I am living with my Mother or Sister.
I ready for the end of time
My wife and I hadn’t had sex for more than a year. Prior to that, for seven years, we would occasionally engage in oral, which was unsatisfying since it was one sided and felt mechanical. About ten months ago she started yelling at me whenever I put my arms around her. She said I was harassing her and that if I was so horny and needy, I should find someone else to relieve myself, but whatever, to stop harassing her. I started seeing sex workers. BIG mistake. So much hurt involved, and guilt.
You just didn’t find the right one don’t give up on them good escorts are out there they’re just hard to find.
My wife hasn’t had sex with me in over 17 years. It’s difficult because I still want to have sex. I just masturbate …. A lot….
My lady only wants me to orgasism inside her vagina, but she has no sex drive, is an older middle aged alchoholic and in such poor physical and mental shape it SICK! I love her but am to the point of cheating or asking for a FWB. It will devastate her high opinion of herself as a woman.
I guess I must count my blessings. My wife and I are celebrating 48 years together in January. We lost our virginity to each other well before our marriage … so often, in fact, that on our wedding night we decided we were too tired from the events of the week and just went to bed to sleep. In recent times, our sex life has begun to resemble our early 20’s again, even better because contraception is in the rearview mirror. Yeah, wrinkles and less hair (me), but sex is as good as ever!
I don’t thinks this was the place to sound your horn (pun). No, on a serious note, it wasn’t something to have posted here. For me and many others, this is a serious problem and we are, well, desperate for solutions. We are still asexually active and every time we see couples enjoying sex, it puts extreme sadness in our souls because we are faithful to our partner. We love them. And we sacrifice ourselves for them. So… no, this was not the place to blow your horn.
I disagree. It’s interesting to know that, for some couple, it is possible to keep active sex life. Unfortunately, it seems that lack of sex is pretty common… For most of men ?
Thank you for pointing out the obvious. I’m happy for the Aging Stud but I think he lacks the ability to empathize and as such, should refrain from “bragging.”
It is possible for long term marriages, 46 years, to maintain a healthy sexual relationship. When we got into our sixties, we began to schedule it for early morning, twice weekly, when we are both rested. This way we are not waiting for some random moment to become spontaneous. My wife is the love of my life and I only want to be with her. We both workout to stay healthy and active. It might seem strange, but though planned it is still hot, and we both already know it is going to happen.
My husband became disabled and had to quit his job. Due to major health issues and aging, we just quit altogether. Some persons who are older like us end up this way. Take the good with the bad. Marriage vows are “till death do you part”.
Leah 09
A lot of people are martyrs when it comes to sex. My son is in an open marriage (I know this because he and his wife talk about it openly) and it opened my eyes to the reality that it is unrealistic to expect one person to be able to satisfy all of your sexual needs. They seem just as happy as any other married couple.
After my wife lost interest, I told her that we either opened our marriage or divorced. She chose to be sexless, so now she has another choice to make.
I’m in the same boat myself..
Yeah Andrew me too. 69 years old and no sex together for over 20 years..I asked her if she ever gets “horny” anymore like when we were dating..she flatly stated “no, and if that’s a dealbreaker so be it”
Yow..I am a 32 year sober alcoholic and thought I had a slight case of ED..but the men’s clinics determined that’s not the case..it’s the flat and lifeless attitude I am getting from my wife that kind of keeps things “limp”. She refuses to talk about it. Guess we’re done here .
I have come to that conclusion also. Marriage is a dream or a fantasy. Some get away with a happy one. I also think they pretend to be happy. I know this because that is what I do, but I have never been more unhappy in my life. I am very attracted sexually to my wife and it hurts my ego that she isn’t at all. She would never agree to an open relationship and I shouldn’t be unhappy. I’m basically living a lie until the time is right for us to part ways.
Concur that marriage is a dream or a fantasy. It’s reflected in all the glamour and attention paid to women’s preparations in life for marriage. Fancy dresses, exotic (and expensive) honeymoons, a glamourous life of never-ending shopping and parties … etc, etc.
In an earlier time, we used to blame it on that first flatulence under the sheet. I guess too many years of a wife washing her husband’s underwear and seeing him in not-quite-the-knight-in-shining-armour anymore also kicks in?
I’m pretty much in the same boat. I’ve been married three times and my third wife is the number one compared to the first three. But, on the sex side, not too good. At first when we were dating this were fine. But at 50 she started to loose interest and dry up. Drying up was a major problem. She saw her doctor and prescribed a lube but it irritated her. The lack of interested finally scuttled her interest to find help. She apologies oh well.
My wife has had vaginal dryness and soreness. We sought help from our doctor who prescribed vaginal pessaries that promote vaginally lubrication. She has an ointment for the external soreness and we use a water based lube recommended by a gynecologist. It is called Sylk and is available online. It doesn’t cause irritation and is very gentle. We apply it before we start any attempts at sexual contact and reapply it during sex. These things don’t always work, but it means we can try sex sometimes
This is so depressing!! What is the solution? We’ve been in counseling for a year. We’re communicating better but no changes to our sex life even though he has plenty of blue pills. He has no “desire.” I say, screw your desire lol. Like Nike says, just do it. We’re in a lifetime partnership. Wtf are we supposed to do when our spouse doesn’t want to make love? I’ll be living in a van down by the river if we separate. Nobody tells you about this stuff in premarital counseling
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Wow Chris D!! First woman with the same situation!! I was already starting to think that I was a “man” born in a “woman’s body”!!! Because we always hear guys complaining! Your situation is my situation ! The only difference is that if we separate I will not have the “van”!! LoL
Harley, I am doing none of those things. I almost wish I were. My wife determined several years ago that she no longer has that connection to me, and will eventually leave. But I still love her and will be heartbroken when that day comes. But I have stayed true to her for our entire marriage . And yes thank goodness for self stimulation… but what I wouldn’t give for a woman’s touch!!!
I’m in the same situation as Chris. Second marriage for both of us. My husband and myself been married for 24 years. I,’m 64,he’s 67. I have been making the first sexual contact for 22 years , If I don’t we would not be having sex.I stopped making the first move 2 years ago. We don’t have a sex life. We talked about it, it didn’t help. He blames me for lack our lack of sex.
I brought this up in premarital counseling. I feared marriage for tears because I knew this is what it would be. I watch the couples in my family and I saw the future. I heard my uncles talk about sex like it was something from their youth that has long gone. I worked my butt of the keep a sexless marriage away. In the end, she doesn’t want it and I have stopped caring. I will do what makes me happy because obviously no one else will.
Boy you said it I’m in the same boat as you except I had to sell my van! Nobody warns anybody about the whole menopause affecting it forever it sounds like a temporary thing. it’s not. And I really don’t want to go outside the marriage. And like you said “just do it” after almost a year, it’s only going to take 2 seconds!!!! And lack of oxytocin at least for me makes me unwilling to listen to her 22 years of endless non-stop talking!
Now I definitely feel more like “the odd woman out” after reading all those men complaining about lack of sex!I am 45 had a hysterectomy 3 years ago, so menopause was forced on me.I still feel like a “horny B*** latina”! My husband is 46 gringo! There is nothing sexier than seeing your man crazy! On fantasy world would be 24/7! Reality, we can go easy one yr without sex, he doesn’t touch me,nada! I don’t look my age at all! It is sad when u see other men drooling over me but the one I want…
Life is definitely funny. I would do just about anything to have a willing partner like you! And sadly that is not my situation. I know that there are reasons for everything, hell it could be my fault, but it is just so frustrating.
Mike… it could be only your fault if you are not touching her! Flirting in public! Doing some bootie grabbing or not being a “standing up” participant?!? Ohh my!!…life is def “funny”!! Not!! Hello fingers!!
Harley
If given the opportunity I would be all over inside and outside the house, flirting and not taking my hand off that booty. But unfortunately I do feel that it is my fault… I just wish I knew what and that I could make it better
Harley and Mike, I have a loving wife… but her sex drive is down to ziltch. I cuttle with her, hold her close, hold her hand in public and we talked about it. Tell her how much I love her. But when I try to go to the next level…. “I’m too tired.” So Mike, I don’t know what to say. It takes two. And Marley, I deeply sorry for your situation. It pains Mike and me to hear that women can suffer this way too.
Fred Paul but do you see the amount of men that complains about it? In the other hand how many women in this post had complained just like the men do? I don’t even think we can count in one hand!! I would give anything to have my husband waking me up in the middle of the night for some “snack”. Oral sex? He stopped after I got pregnant with our older daughter now 16 years! So 16 yrs with no oral for me! Despite the times that I had done to him! I am so tired of the amount of time it takes to
Harley, yeah… I believe men are more likely to complain then women in places like this. But did you notice that men have to make the first move? How I wish the girls would ask ME to dance at school dances. Anyway, I simply want you to know that as many women as men are trapped in this sadness. You’re not alone. Having said that, it still stinks.
I had ALWAYS made the first move for the 17 years we are married!! I gave up!
Not odd… same boat and frustrated
You are so not alone! I am 53, been married 31 years! I would have never thought I would be practically begging for sex from my husband. I have men often approach me, flirt and such but have always been faithful. It is sad to wish your partner wanted you as much as complete strangers!
My wife lost an ovary in 2016. Three years ago she informed me that she is dried up and there will be no sex and no affection. I’m 65 and still have a strong drive but I feel unwanted and unattractive. I’m an Incel and a loser.totally miserable and she just doesn’t care. Tuff toodles buddy. Go without. All I am is the live in handy man. Sadly for me, I don’t make enough money to buy a place on my own and rents are even higher. So I’m a prisoner here in hell
Same here! I’m 55 my husband is 52 I want sex he doesn’t and doesn’t touch me! I’m definitely dedicated to my marriage I’m just trying to figure out why we don’t have sex and how can we get it back! I too have coworkers flirting with me and have had one beg me for just a taste lol I’ll say as bad as I want sex I’m not the stepping out kind of woman but damn it’s tempting just for the male touch on my skin ! It’s hard to sleep next to him every night and not be touched when I’m craving him!
I’m 68 and desperately want to be loved physically.My husband loves me but can’t make love to me because of illness.I have tried to satisfy myself but it doesn’t work.
I’m in a sexless marriage and have been frustrated for years (over 20 years). My wife had a double mastectomy and won’t even let me see her naked. I have found sexting on chat rooms to be a diversion, but I feel guilty. Very frustrating
I completely understand. My husband lost interest in sex about 10 years ago. We completely stopped. It is so frustrating because I love my husband and it seems like he has no concerns about how it affects me. He went to a doctor once but he wasn’t interested in seeking more medical attention. I have considered a friend with benefits but I really don’t want to go that route.
Hi. I understand and feel the same frustration, lack of self esteem and many other emotions expressed here. My problem, however, is that my husband won’t admit he is gay. I have come out and told him this is the case and he says,” but that’s not the way I want to be”. He has a judgmental family who wouldn’t accept this. Of course I didn’t know this until years after our marriage. He is my best friend and I love him. I would miss him so I stayed but I’m lonely.
Amazing stories, and Im sorry to all who are having issues, I am no different. the first 20years was like a hot sexy loving porn movie without limits. Then boom, from 300+ a year to barely a dozen. Nothing has gotten better and in fact 1000 times worse because the effects of her not being truthful with me, destroyed any trust and respect that was left between us. Im living the lie, hating every second of it, lying to everyone if asked if I am happy. 4 attempts at my life to date. Sux 2bme
I caught my husband with his ex girlfriend. Recently, he has been distant unloving and disrespectful towards me. I had a feeling he was going to leave me in no time and he later did this was After 3 years of marriage, my husband left me and never returned.
I’m gonna ask you a serious question please be honest. Did your husband cheat on you after you stop having sex with him? You know what I don’t need to know the answer. That’s something that you honestly need to ask yourself. We now live in a society that it is selfish or disrespectful for a man to insist or ask for sex. Why would he ever have too? I in the same boat as your husband. My wife stop having sex with me it’s been 8 months. I work, cook, clean, fix I don’t drink or do any drugs.
José!! You “work, cook, clean, fix, don’t drink or do drugs”! Aiaia!Number, address, divorce papers signed and ready to go?DANG! Where is my man who would COOK, and have me for dessert?CLEAN! No way you are real!!! The two “C words!” 16 years being married. If it wasn’t for this site I would had forgotten that the word “sex” even existed! BIG ZERO, NADA FOR 18 MONTHS NOW! He had at least 9 different jobs, years of unemployment with me working overtime 12 hrs night shifts (RN here). And LATINA
I hear ya Jose! I self reflected and starting cooking again, especially on her late nights. I did a lot of stuff that I thought would make things easier for her. She claims to always be tired anyway. She will sit in bed on her phone though. I realized that her life and passion are our girls (which she refers to as her girls). I think I was just the sperm donor and now I am the sugar daddy that provides her a comfortable life.
Is it me or does it seem like sex therapists and experts are lacking, some seem hedonistic?
It sounds like there are many many committed marriages but seemingly to unwise and probably unloving spouses. But at the same time love is kind and will not guilt trip.
Many of these comments are a breath of fresh air. I don’t have many helpful things to add but I am getting on with life, there is more to do than sit around wallowing in sexlessness.
both my parents are senior. my dad is 85 years old and my mom is 5 years his senior at 90 years old. my dad still wants to have sex but my mom is too tired and no longer comfortable with sex. she feels palpitation and jitters and she perspires just as the thought of it.. bottomline, my mom just wants companionship but my dad wants more. he is very persistent. how do i tell him that in this life, especially for them both, there is more to life than just sex.
It’s is not your role. The role only involves the two lovers and an invited therapist they consented to. Two lovers need boundaries to choose their path. You need boundaries to actively live yours in a healthy manner without them in your bedroom.
Married 23 years. Learning how to communicate and experience life myself .
I agree with Trish, Frustrated Daughter. I don’t think I would like my son or daughter tell me what to do in the bedroom. I think the resolve here is to tell the parent who is confiding in you to seek professional help, and then bud out. Well, you might offer to find one for them, then bud out. Having said that, I understand your frustration too. It hard to bud out.
Sex is not something anyone should be willing to compromise just to have a partner. I’ve been single 12 years and I’m totally Loving every second. You do realize maybe this person you’re with isn’t the one for you? File for divorce split everything up and start living life you only get one you know. A sexless life is totally out of the question for me.
To get to that age and still want see If not using “”viagra” or any other enhancement drugs “”. Wow”” your dad is so blessed here 99% of men Are over and out Either dead or sexless at 85 Find your dad a willing carer to spoil him a bit And don’t tell your mom Nobody gets hurt this way
So the thing I hate hearing but rings true is once in the no sex zone you are not coming back in to it. The experts have very little to offer. We’ve all heard the answer to no Sex is stop having Sex?
I do not believe love will demand it as a duty but love also doesn’t hand over the relationship to the destructive forces and temptations
The older I get the more confident I am
In my is own skin. Sure I wish I could be confident in her skin too but I’m not going to let it overwhelm me
Agree, I have accepted the fact I’m now in a sexless marriage, ugh! He is ten years older. After reading this feed, thanks for sharing stories but I know where dirty old man comes from, darn wives holding out! Haha I’m not going to belittle my husband and make him feel less of a man when he is the one with impotence. Sucks to be me, right! Haha it isn’t always easy but I try to focus where we are in life.
This so frustrating at times. I was reading the original story and that exactly my life. When we met, it was amazing. Then we got married and had kids (not that I regret) but 20 years of pulling teeth juts to get touched or even desired really hurts. She’s happen because we don’t have sex or have any form of intimacy. She sleeps in the other room. But on the other side I’d the coin, I’m dying for not having any kind of touch. It will never balance out. Both 39 years old…I just suffer in silence.
You need to leave her. It’s only going to get worse. And you are wasting your life . Sorry. More men need to leave their wives when they won’t have sex with them. It’s the only wu to turn this round.
39 – TRUST ME RUN – Don’t walk – Don’t ruin your life!!!!
At your age, don’t run until you exhaust all your options. My first wife and I married when we were 21. But we didn’t know what we had. Our sex life slowed, separated, and each found partners. Before I married my second wife, Vicky told me she made a terrible mistake, still loves me and wanted back. I said no. Now married to number 3. Great but no sex at 69. Still in love with Vicky. We could have worked it out. Stay with it, work on it with her. Then if you still have to, decide.
I am not a selfish, heartless man as I do love my good natured, sweet wife VERY MUCH. I love to hear what she has to say and I love being with her every day. HOWEVER, at 71 y.o. I still have a real need/desire to be intimate with my wife. I have NEVER cheated on her or flirted with others and I believe the same is true of her. However, at 71 I want/need to be intimate with her as I can’t relax or sleep after about 3 weeks of no sex. Help please!
You are not alone. I thought I would never have this problem since we had sex about 300+ times a year. then just 12. Its a real, very real and almost impossible not to be overwhelmed with resentment and hate comes right behind it. Look it could be worse, like my situation. the last 11 years, fully capable of sex but she acted like a brat since i provided a killer lifestyle and now, the big C word has ended my sex life and life for good . God slapped me down hard, so chin up, smile, make do
You are only 39. You need to leave right now you are young it is only going to get worse at some point you are going to get angry and your kids will notice your anger. The older you get the harder it is going to be to leave. Get on with your life and find somebody else
I certainly feel your pain and utter frustration. With so many of us in similar situations, it would be nice if we could just reshuffle the deck, at least in this one area
I have what may be slight ED..but offered to stimulate and play at sex often..there are some really fun marital
aids that i bought. She wants no part of it. And I cook, shop for food, take care of dogs and have. a great career in media..She seems to have lost interest in ME. Wish she would just say so. I mistakenly intercepted several text
messages where she was being flirtatious to a local musician . Pretty graphic stuff. So she still has a spark of sexiness ..but wants the womanizer.
I wish I would catch my wife cheating or even semi cheating. I would be gone before dark!
Patricia, im in the same boat as you, iam 69 years old and have stage one parkinsons my wife is 65 and has stopped being interment, everytime i make any advance she has no responce. I have looked at other women but not acted and by heck its hard (and it does) we havn’t had sex in over five years so i have to go solo. When i bring up the subject and try to talk about it she puts the guilt trip on me and tells me im over sexed and thats the end of it. I still ove my wife but gee its frustrating.
Susan….I second Sean’s reply to you. I was faithful to my beautiful redhead for 27 yrs, and I never got tired of making love to her. Never did I roll over and fall asleep, and always tried to give her an orgasm until I had one. I don’t know what kind of slob you were married to, but maybe he rolled over and fell asleep because you were so boring and disinterested. Most women are “unforgiving” and never say they’re sorry for the crap they pull, and stop providing or enjoying sex on that basis.
After reading most of the above letters I have come to the conclusion that married couples, for the most part, have all entered into relationships, never having the correct “training”.
And I am one of those. 90% of the letters I read, could have been mine.
I only wrote this, to just say it. Because I have no suggestions as to how to change things.
I went through marital counseling before the wedding.
The counselor ABSOLUTELY never touched on the subject of sex.
I am 62 and much healthier than my wife. I work hard and have to masturbate sometimes to fall asleep. She snores loudly and we have different bedrooms. It is not fair that I have to take care of “it” by myself! I have never, nor will I ever cheat. Life is tough, and tougher knowing you are not going to get laid.
Your story is very very simular to mine. And ur right it is really screwed up knowing u might not get laid again or when that might be. My wife is an alcoholic so mood swings are often. I too have never cheated. But very tired of masterbating. I think it is very selfish.
We are 64 years old and haven’t had sex for 3 1/2 years. We’ve been married for 37 years. He is impotent due to hydrocele and he plans to have surgery until he’s 65. He may still be impotent after surgery, no guarantees. We had an active sex life and I miss the physical part of our lives. I am in this marriage ’til death do us part’ but I feel like I’m missing something very big in my life.
Given the fact that 34%, (some studies say as high as 40%) of women and 15% of men don’t like/want sex, is it any wonder that 50% of marriages end in divorce? Having married one of the well into that 34% is hell. Nothing before marriage, nothing on our wedding night and little to nothing for the next 46+ years. That has been HER normal. Indifferent withholders like my wife NEVER get better and their partners either leave or become bitter!
We are financially comfortable, healthy and secure. I am a 71 y.o.,healthy male and I deeply love my 70 y.o. sweet wife but I am sad, depressed and horny because of our sexless marriage. I WILL NOT find an outside sex buddy as that collides with my morals so cheating is NOT an option. I am afraid I am limited to physically pleasing myself for the rest of my life though this is not satisfying and runs against my morals. Any suggestions?
My husband and I separated recently. We’ve been married for six years now and it’s been an abusive relationship in all types of way. I want to figure out myself and fix my own issues so I can be a great mom and wife but I feel like is a waste of time to try to fix my marriage because it’s broken down and I’m emotionally drained and I just want to focus on my kids. And I feel it’s unfair for me to try to fix something that I’m the only one that’s putting effort into. I’m so confused. That had bee
As someone who has now gone over 6 years without any contact more intimate than a hug … I can tell you it is a relationship killer. Emotional intimacy and physical intimacy go hand in hand. If you deny one you put a wall around the other.
Married 30 years now. Stayed for the kids (gone now) and because I don’t WANT to be divorced but I am so painfully alone. I’ll say this, If you truely love your spouse and THEY need intimacy, find a way to make SOMETHING happen because you are killing them.
Men with low sex drive try lifting free weights in a gym. ( Keep cardio to a minimum and stay away from the weight machines) I kid you not. Do this consistently, eat a mostly protein based diet and cut out sugar for 6 months and report back. I guarantee most who do this will start feeling like a sex machine.
No one is talking about wives whose husbands are the one that doesn’t want sex. I am 52, married for 25yrs and sex has dwindled down to once every year or two. We don’t have children, and we have tried everything….therapy, books, scheduling sex, talking, crying, toys, porn. It breaks my heart because we are so happy together in every other way, but I need the physical intimacy and to be desired and sex is something I enjoy and I feel like he is withholding it. I get angry, then sad and depressed
oh Pamela, I hear you! My husband and I have been married 6 years. I’m 65 and he is 74. Our marriage still isn’t consummated, and this grieves me as I yearn to be loved in this way. He just isn’t interested and blames it on his diabetes. I’ve even had the gumption to suggest that if HE doesn’t desire sex, then maybe he could still give me pleasure. 5 minutes of his time now and again isn’t much to ask! He keeps saying he’ll do better, but nothing ever happens!
Hi Monica, You ladies need to get hip on new Sex Play & Sex Toys, My wife of 1yr,(she is 73) ( I’m 77) We were having sex every nite & 3 times on weekends…and it all came to a STOP about a month ago. She is BI/Sexual she said & needs a women or two…..So that leads me to find some one else or join in that the only way i get some sex from her……So Monica & Pamela Start looking for some Bi/sexual or Gay Women….Their only an Orgasm a way!!!
Monica..give her satisfaction .. that is exactly what I would love to do for my wife of 30 years. She won’t talk about it and claims she desires no intimacy. But each night i rub her feet and tickle her thighs..she just lays there ..and I go out and sleep in a recliner.
Even with some ED we can still have a good orgasm..but she won’t even touch me..
I’m not a bad looking guy, and tend to her needs materially.. but sex is off the table.
Honey I can assure you 100% he’s not doing without sex he’s at the prime age to have sex I couldn’t tell you why he didn’t wanna have sex with you but I’m going through the same thing with my wife. She asked me to get castrated because Sex is hurting her. That way both of our sex drive would be fairly low I’m a good looking hard-working big hearted man and I immediately told her you better well I don’t wanna hurt you. so I started to do it. Then I find out she’s got four different boyfriends. Sh
Ohio M in same situation and when I bring it up she always says well why don’t you just get a divorce. I’m just trying to talk to her and it pisses her off anytime I bring it up I’m tired of masturbating two to three times a week so I can focus on the everyday things I’m going on 33 years of marriage and this started at 15 years. At 20 years I did start having a partner on the side because I was very sexually frustrated and that partner within the same situation.
So sorry to read this Pamela, I’m in the same boat with my lovely wife, terribly depressing.
MY life you have spoken…
You as a woman are lucky. You need to sit him down and read him the riot act. Something a man can’t do. another commenter on this site accused men of coercion or rape for getting angry and threatening to leave marriage. Tell him you love him but you need sex and if he can’t get it up he still has fingers a mouth and sex toys , and if he loves you , he can invest 15 or 20 minutes in the evening and if needed, every damn evening to satisfy you and make you happy.
married 57 years. No sex for about 20 years. Will not do anything about it.. Refuses everything and anything to do with sex. I lve my wife more now then when we got married. I haven’t yet but I am going to find sex outside my home
Guys. My opinion only, so, most likely only worthy in my estimation. Same issue here. Just has zero desire. Want to know why? Because I am not attractive to her. She is just plain not sexually attracted to me. She was before marriage. I guess. But after our second kid it just dried up to not much. Then it was more of a “hurry it up” thing. Then it was “just plain no, I’m not sexually turned in”. Now it’s “I’m sore there”. Yet she constantly professes love. Blah blah blah. I just gave up. It’s not worth the stress. I’m 65, she’s 70. Sex is over. At least between us. But the reason is sexual attraction. Period. She just isn’t attracted to me. I’m in ok shape, not overweight . Tall. Semi handsome for an old guy. I guess. She’s just not attracted to me and personally, I’m not sure she ever was.
No one is talking about men who don’t want to have sex. I’m a 68, fun, attractive, domestic woman who loves intimacy. My NEW husband gets a hard on, loves me to give him oral sex but is not sexually attracted to me at all. He doesn’t even like to kiss. Thank goodness we get along well in every other area, however I’m at a loss. Any discussion goes nowhere. Color me confused.
Same here except I m 75 he is 80. Says I don’t turn him on I’m to fat. I suggested just me doing him and he close his eyes and touché me nope
I understand. After having surgery 2 years ago for testicular cancer my wife won’t touch me. She says she loves me but can’t stand to touch me. Been married 20 years . I like to think there is hope but unsure. Been sleeping in separate beds since surgery.
I understand, I’m in the same position, although not as long of a time period without sex. I understand the frustration, I have tried talking with my wife and have even said, “ if the problem was with me, I would be in a doctors office tomorrow!” When we go out, all I see are happy couples who show affection and love. I want that back in my life as well!
I grew up ramming into me that I’m there for husbands sole desire. I married, not for love but because was told I could do worse. 20yrs old. The sex was great but found I was working most years 2 jobs, supporting the house hold 3 kids. He was gone on the road 80% of the time. When home I was to do “whatever” he wanted me to. I figured this was my life, deal with it and shut up. Then extreme back problems thru me into disability. However I worked as much at home since someone had to do it. I can’t have sex do to pain and believe me I truly hat it. As well as almost no feeling there as well. Finally after 40yrs he tries to help and cares more now than at any point all the times before. When we had our kids he was so mad because the babies got attention from me and thought when home they should take back stage. He decided he’d have an affair. When I wanted to leave, the only family I had told me they’d not support me whatsoever and just shut up grow up and deal with it and I’d better do whatever it took to keep the husband. Now he tries to help, but it’s always falling on me, no matter the pain to do it. But I do it, why? Cause it needs done.
So my question to the men here…. Is it honestly your right to be given sex however your wife can give it? Her duty? Please explain to me. I just don’t understand. There’s no divorce possibility. What we have I’ve worked very hard to achieve. I’ve no where to go. NOw he works well and I’m proud of him for that. He’s no longer a sexy looking man, doesn’t care about trying to make himself better, I still fight to try to look really good, no matter how I feel. So to many they think I’m faking it. But if it’s truly my duty….. I just don’t get it.
Oh, my!!!!
Dear, PS Bishislife,
Sigh . . . I understand your pov at a level you may not understand (sorry) or appreciate. Especially because . . .
. . . I am male.
I have been married for 40 years this coming July. My wife and I have been a couple for 51 years (since 1971).
You said, “So my question to the men here…. Is it honestly your right to be given sex however your wife can give it? Her duty? Please explain to me. I just don’t understand. ”
Simply, and probably naively, the answer to your question is, NO, it is *not* my right, nor in any way acceptable. Nor, is it a reasonable demand that you need (should) accept. Period!!!
Welcome to, IMO, male divine right. No, I should say ‘male divined WRONG!’
Look, not to give your hubby a pass here, but please, understand that most men in our country, we who were raised in the ’50s. ’60s, ’70s. ’80s, are victims of the same injustice and gender paradigms you are experiencing. We males, as the so perceived alphas in these situations, just accept and go along with the flow without ever considering the other; the what if . . . the you.
We men are not brain dead. Yes, we are accused of such, and rightly so quite often; but, no, we are sentient, thinking human beings. We know right form wrong. The question is, will we accept that fact, those facts, and act upon them in honorable fashion.? Yeah, maybe not, eh . . .!
For the writer of this letter/question . . . you probably love your husband, or at least the person he once was when you were first together. Here is the “rub” though. You have grown as a human being . . . has he?
We men are so caught up in our egos . . . our sense of what is expected . . . our belief of *how* we should act and behave . . . we always believe that we are being judged . . . by *someone”!!!, so we better act tough, ya know!
Let the in-laws or best friend care for your children for a day or two. You and your husband need to take some hours to reconnect, or try to reconnect, with the people you believe yourself to have been when you first fell in love with each other. If that is not possible, it may be too late. But, and hopefully it is, if you still connect at that level in any way, please do so. Remember what you felt, believed, and why.
Let him know, with passion and love, that you miss *that* him . . . that you would love to have *that* him back in your life. That may not be possible.
For many men, wooing and life after wooing are two vastly different realities. They need not be. Nor, should they be.
Wooing is a life-long endeavor. I *must* woo my wife, always. I hope that she too will woo me, always, as well. Without the energy of wooing, the fear of missing out if we do not woo, we fall into complacency and boredom. Nothing, I mean nothing, kills a relationship, a marriage, a union, more thoroughly than complacency and boredom. It is incumbent on each of us, male and/or female to strive for the new, the invigoration, the secure, the calm, the exciting, the passionate . . . you get it.
If these thoughts are not at the forefront of your relational mind, well, your (our) love(s) and relationships may in fact die.
Sorry – long diatribe.
To answer your question from my 69-year old, male POV:
**The husband has NO right to sex, or anything else. He has an expectation of honesty and communication, perhaps, but only if he is providing the same for you.
**Women are constantly told to shut up and accept. Wrong! Be truthful. Be caring. Be loving. But, do not sell yourself. Your children can/will respect only what they see and experience. If they need get that only from you, so be it.
Men are not brain dead. They (we) act most often as though we men are not capable of rational/sentient thought. But, if we actually *wish* to engage our brains, we do have the brains that God gave us, the brains through with which we can engage in thoughtful interpretation of facts. The scenario you posited is anything but.
Be true to yourself, and your children. Love will always outweigh the brief pleasure that $$ and status can provide.
My grandma used to tell me, “You can’t fix broken people. That doesn’t mean you should not try, but know when trying is of no use. Then,move on.” A very wise woman my grandma.
Good luck.
Peace
I’m a 66 year old man who’s been in a sexless marriage for 33 years.
I don’t believe calling sex “your duty” is accurate at all. I’m not really sure if you can put any one word to it. There are physical and emotion consequences to withholding sex from a partner. You’re doing them harm when refusing. It’s at least mean …. and possibly evil.
In my case our problems are ever deeper in that ours is a “Love /Hate relationship”. About 10 % Love 90% Hate.
Been in sexless marriage for 45 years! Perfectly happy and have intention to change it.
Men listen carefully If your wife stopped having sex with you after marriage she will NEVER regain that desire for you. Read the first sentence again. You either need to leave or stay in it knowing that she is sexless towards you. No amount of counseling or therapy etc etc will change this. Plus why would you want to have sex with someone who isn’t interested? I have many friends in this situation. Most stay in the marriage because of kids and the men cheat as they should. They complain that the wife was open to sex anytime anywhere when they were dating but it all changed after kids were born. Women’s sex drives are based on fulfilling other non sexual needs such as wedding, marriage, home ownership, babies, cars, money etc etc. Once the women have these needs fulfilled the sexual desire for the man that gave them all the things they desired goes away. However if these women get divorced they have a sexual oasis spring up again between their legs because they need to find a new nest. But it will quickly fade again once their needs are met. Men’s sexual needs are purely physical and need to be fulfilled regularly. Men my advice is don’t get married or move in with women if you love sex. the women stop trying once you give them what they want. if you want to get married for children just understand that your wife will stop wanting to have sex with you after she gets her babies. To survive you’ll need to cheat or else go insane. Cheating is easy and you deserve it.
Thanks Buck for being brutally honest, I can relate to it and know how much painful it is, seeing your wife everyday but I can’t even hold her because she’ll embarrass me with a comeback that all I want is sex and I’ll get humiliated and will just eventually die inside.
Unfortunately, Buck Necked is correct. I have been married since 1983. Now that I am 62 years old I can say his description of “what happens” is spot on.
No amount of therapy, joint or individual, will fix this issue. I have tried joint with promises of renewal and never worked. I have tried individual therapy and that was to no avail. Once you cross into the no sex zone there is NO going back. Took my wife to Paris, on our 25th wedding anniversary and rented the most romantic flat next to the Eiffel Tower. Nope. From that point on, Croatia, Greece Island, every best ski area out west. Nope – no sex. Thank God I love to ski. He is correct, the therapists want you to have hope so they can have the clients, I spent plenty on it and made numerous ” loving conversations”. I have stayed in the marriage because of my kids and other family issues which go beyond this comment. I have not had an affair because, well, that’s just not me. I just go to AA now instead (I drank too much for 10 years because of no sex) & have great old fashioned men friends and conversations of good life practices. I just accept that I could not control it and that it is Gods will for me.
Yes Is so agree..No turning back!But It’s now time replace her where she doesn’t want to be part of.After 40 years 4kids 16 grands 5great… Though I miss her warmth her ther body so much!Even after cancer twice majors surgery’s reconstructions she still my one n only !N last one too…Time for me replace her affairs only way …fishing..hunting ..camping ..some still with her!Rest myself alone ..others with son n grandsons while I still can getting around n driving!
true that buck necked!
I agree 100% – its living hell –
Same exact situation here – it’s a living hell!
Thats crazy my husband is the one who is lacking in wanting orgasms, I still need them daily so I continue with out him, I am tired of all the good years I wasted on him waiting lol our kids are grown and gone I still love sex! he will not give me a divorce so yes take a lover if you need too cause feeling wanted, desired, and loved, is like food we all need it and deserve it!
I am afraid Buck is correct. I am Married 47 years, I am 67 she is 70. She tricked me, I fell in love, we have 4 grown awesome me, the model relationship in our large family. I do not want to out her to the family as they all adore her. I hate her for cheating me out of sex. We stopped having sex ten years ago, she won’t talk about it. If I threw a fit, she would allow it but Buck is correct, who wants to have sex with someone who is repulsed by the act of sex. She always had 2 orgasms before me
“…Cheating is easy and you deserve it “.
That last sentence got my attention.
Suffice it to say I got cut off when she started affairs with 3 other guys. I set up a Revenge cheat. She told me, “a man should never get jealous of his wife f ing other men.”
After the Revenge cheat she had the nerve to
accuse me of not loving her enough, if I had to cheat back…. WFT. Divorced quickly.
Why do women marry a good provider and run around with the empty pocket young studs?
You are, unfortunately, and brutally, correct.
Don’t waste your money on smiling, empathetic therapists…they’re all self-licking ice cream cones.
I have a simple fix for all this. who cares any more if your in a sexless marriage! I’ve been in one for about 47 years and I’m the cause of it. Fix for this is just deal with it and do your own thing, or just leave. Now whats so hard about that. I chose to stay just to piss my wife off.
John, where do you live, and do you play golf regularly without your wife ?
Peter: she wouldn’t interest you she’s like me now old, cranky, take pills and fat. Also she’s happy without sex after her hysterectomy and gal bladder surgery. We just share our acerage, her in the house and I have a place with my dettached out building. Life is so wonderful!
This is sad. From so many different angles I cannot begin to list.
Hi Christi, the best thing about this article is the comment section!
The article itself is very weak and rehashed b.s., But the comments are priceless!
I agree with Roger, I get more laughs, and more insight, from the comment section!
Truly is
The comment section saved me from my sexless marriage, the counselling article is just drivel to shore up business to the Psychologist.
Christi do us a favor and explain what you are talking about.
Nathan… I am in exactly the same position as you. I’ve been married to my husband for 35 + years to an “indifferent withholder” for the entire marriage. There has never been either emotional OR physical closeness beginning soon after the marriage. It’s been a lonely and humiliating experience. I wish you well and hope you find some consolation
Dianne
I don’t have a problem with a sexless marriage, in fact I created it in our marriage. I quit sex because I didn’t want to put with name calling and her being boring. I had suggest different ways to have sex and she blew up, I was bored and suggested maybe trying different ways, right away I was a pervert and she called me names that shouldn’t be repeated here and kicked out of bed. That was almost 50 years ago, I don’t live in he house with her. I decided to work the night shift and made it my thing. I worked sat and sun all holidays and gave away vacation. I live in my garage, shop, apartment and happy as clam no yelling and name calling. I dom’t have to put up with that.
but you most certainly are “putting up” with it, by acquiescing your role in your own home and your role as the male in your relationship.
You may be ok with the situation you’ve created.. that’s one thing, but to act as though you’re merely tolerating the situation as a martyr is pure BS.
bcb
I like the martyr thing, but it’s no B.S. I happen to like the situation I created and I will never change it. I go where I want and do my own thing, there’s no where are you going, screaming and name calling. She can just kiss my butt.
Hi all
My wife and I are in our late 50’s and connect wonderfully in all ways. We enjoy our company, share similar hobbies, have a lovely family and house, like to travell together, share chores ( I make a gourmet breakfast every Sunday) don’t really have financial issues apart from the normal stress episodes, and above all we love each other dearly or at least we say it all the time!
But we don’t have sex or make love or anything you want to call it!
We have tried everything ( I mean everything ) but nothing seems to work and I’m getting desperate! Discussing the problem is a problem in itself because she simply get very irritated and by it and that’s the end of that! I’ve tried scheduling, bringing in sex toys, texting, dating, hugging and cuddling in bed you name it. She is my sister as far as I’m concerned not my lover and I don’t know what to do. Leaving her is not an option. She’s my childhood sweetheart, has a lovely personality, a wonderful mother and a very sexy body and persona to boot..
Someone please help.
Leaving her is The Only Option!
She doesn’t love you DA
We are peas in a pod. We have been married 41 years. My best friend. But she is just not sexually attracted to me. Hasn’t been for decades. I’ve tried all the normal things too. I have no idea what to do. Divorce? Are you crazy? She’s the mother of our kids! She’s my buddy. The dog loves her. I love her. I can’t hurt her, no way! So, I guess I’ll just embrace the suck.
Man, can I relate!
Have you considered opening your relationship or swinging together? There are books that can help guide you. Just a thought. Also, look into the idea of responsive desire and make sure you understand it. She has to try, and she should want to try for your sake if not hers. I hope you two can work it out.
I can offer a small piece of advise. It won’t fix the sexless marriage. You take care of you! I made the decision that I would just say screw it and NOT think about sex at all. I became completely numb to anything. Somehow I thought that would be my fix. Come to find out my wife was getting hers on the side. I’d been wearing blinders believing she’d never cheat. Damn was I a dumbass. 30 years I kept saying to myself.”it’ll get better” Now I have ED. That old saying “use or loose it”.. Very true!
I thought I was a ‘one-off’ in the married to a wonderful girl, late 50’s but looks more like 30. Slim ‘n’ sexy, vivacious, clever, pretty as any actress you’d care to name….but apparently has not a single fantasy, no kinks, doesn’t enjoy oral (anal is right outta the question), cannot be pinched, tickled, smacked on the arse…
But ticks so many boxes, its hard to really criticise her but I do miss my last g/f …she’d be busy by 4pm on a Friday picking out an outfit to wear to sex club…
I’m mid 50’s married man who has ED and low T. I have always had a lower desire. Tried Testosterone replacement but it made me very sick and ended up in the emergency room with complications . It’s not an option. Frankly I’m tired of people pushing to try Testosterone replacement again. I was in bed for a week with complications and ended up in the ER and the doctor said given my reactions my risk for stroke is 25% higher using Testosterone but I still get told I need to think of her and give it another try. 2nd doctor also said the same thing. It was even suggested I try penile injections at bedtime so I can at least get hard for her pleasure. I’m at a loss for words. There is a limit to everything and this crosses that line. Isn’t going to happen.
Try Vitamin D-3. Try sex toys.
Laura. I’ve tried vacations, dates, sex toys, lubricants, vitamins, blah blah blah…..when a gal is not sexually attracted to you and is generally more than willing to never have sex again cuz (insert the reason I don’t understand here) she’s not going to change at 70.
I am 67 and my wife is 62. We haven’t had sex in 6 months and she has rejected my advances numerous times. The last time we tried, she complained of the pain even with lubrication. I have no issues with my performance and dont need ED meds. I am very hormonal being athletic and take DHEA supplements which enhance desire. I would suggest you try these because they will increase your natural produce of testosterone without the side effects you mention. Mayo clinic advises to avoid, because they are not FDA approved and because they didn’;t go the pathway of long term human trials are to be avoided. Some doctors will prescribe testosterone and advise DHEA supplementation. Its worth discussing with your doctor.
My wife will listen to my concerns about sex, but will not take hormone supplementation because of the science which indicates it can cause cancer in rare cases. So, I’m on my own unless I decide to cheat. This is hard, because of my upbringing and the fact she is a wonderful person in every other way.
I’m considering leaving altogether and realize it will put a financial strain on both of us although we have significant cash equity in our home which can make it much easier in retirement. I would leave and strive to take care of her financial needs until she is able to take care of herself or meets a man her age or older who is happy as a roommate.
I wish I could be fulfilled without sex, like many women as they age.
I hear ya. Cheating just isn’t in me. Divorce isn’t either I’m not ever going to hurt her. She would be lost.
Joe-
Try DHEA. It is a precursor and will stimulate the Adrenal glands to produce more testosterone.
I take it religiously, because it helps me in the gym and with mental clarity. It will make you horny as hell, however. Add Cialis if you want solid tree trunk hardness.
Unfortunately, my wife is 62 and has given up interest in sex and affection of any type. I am 65 and raring to go and caopable of satisfying a woman in her 30’s.
Leave her, even if youre alone.
Jack- SHe aint lost brother. She know eccatly what shes doing. You are the problem/ Can you blame her? Why would anyone want to have sex with your pessimistic, crotchety, excuse-ridden ass? Be a fuckin man. Go out and kill a hog, punch a younger guy in the face, ride a harley, do a steroid cycle. For fucks sake man. Women want to be swept off their feet.
57mwm here. 10 year sexless marriage. Avoiding divorce, men have two choices, acceptance/celibacy or cheating. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that what you say or how you say it will somehow turn her back on. She is intelligent and knows exactly what is going on. Don’t kid yourself, she still understands a man’s needs. The fact that she can’t be bothered to take a few minutes in the shower to manually make things right tells you everything you need to know. You can’t have me, but you can’t have anybody else, is the most selfish and controlling position possible. Men, if you want sex and the answer at home is no, you can accept that the last time you had sex will be it until you die. Or you can try and find a willing partner. But just remember, mature willing women are unicorns.
I am new to this. I am familiar with all of this and I kept silent for a very long time. My beliefs are that I cannot step outside my marriage and commitment and it cost me some very good relationships with other women. My thoughts are I need to end my current marriage so I can MoveOn. I have been dedicated for 43 years but I also realize you need and one thing before you canOnto the other
So, you’re going to break up a marriage of 43 years, because you don’t want to masturbate. Brilliant.
I hear you bro. 30 years in sexless marriage. I love her to death but can’t stand to be around her anymore. I feel like I’ve been through he’ll. What she’s done to me all these years was downright evil ! I can’t stop thinking about it. There is no hope for this relationship. But here I sit….pissed off.
Who cares who’s got the problem enjoy not having sex! Its one less thing to think about or do. I don’t even bother to talk to her (all she does is whine and complain). A little over 43 without sex, or dealing with her, I do my own thing and don’t really care what she does.
Dear, dear men,
Have you ever considered WHY your wife doesn’t want to have sex anymore? There are many reasons.
1. Sex for men is like passing gas or eating: it’s just a physical thing that needs to get done. While women understand that, men refuse to comprehend that arousal is complex for women. I won’t lecture: you’ve all read about it. When you choose not to accept/care/act on it year after year, our desire disappears.
2. Most men do their deed and roll over. We’re just a “hole for your pole” . Over the years this causes deep anger and then revulsion in the female.
3. The nipple is not an “on and off switch”. Get some technique. ’nuff said.
My husband and I are working on these issues now, and it takes some serious ,painful discussion. There is hope on the horizon.
Your stereotypes are both incorrect AND insulting. There are many men, myself included, who desire far more than just a quick physical release, and who see their wife as a partner in a shared loving experience, not a living sex toy to use and the put away once satisfied. I desire foreplay and intimacy, not just intercourse. I desire tenderness and affection, not just an orgasm. I want my wife to be happy with the experience as well. After 35 years, I want to be with my wife more than ever, not less.
Perhaps your husband, as well as a few troglodytes posting here, are in need of some attitude adjustments, but you shouldn’t paint all men with the same brush.
I agree with you Sean. I’m a woman.
Well said my friend. Most women find us as nothing more then a sex pig. As for me, never….
Agree!
Agree Sean. Fully. What shallow view of the problem. Sure. We are all misogynistic pigs that just need a hole for our poles. Right. None of us know how to read, converse or think. We don’t understand anything about foreplay or romance. We are all just CroMagnon reborn.
Insulting and shallow Susan.
Susan I think many men would find your comments upsetting. Just as women receive and need emotional connection, men provide a different way of showing their connection to their woman. We feel just as frustrated that our actions are not recognized by our women. Yet we are burdened with the biologically and Darwinian drive to procreate. It’s not as rosy on our side of the fence, when you really look into it. Cheers Rl.
I have never been a man so I cannot empathize with a man. But from a woman’s standpoint, we need emotional love BIG TIME before we can go there. Yes – it seems so mechanical and cut and dry the way some men are, so no sex is much more appealing. I need to feel cherished, looked at and touched in a non-sexual way – THEN when I feel loved and safe, I want to please my man. We are wired so differently. I can easily live without sex, but I cannot live without love. No love – no sex.
Rob you are right on, God set this up with every male, as we get older the desire goes down but not away. So all women who married men and saw this first hand, from 14 to 80. We must have sex or blow up, not a choice. Both Men and women slow down there sex drive but women sex drive is so on the back burner and frankly they don’t care about men’s sex drive needs. But don’t you have a affair, to deal with that sex drive that I’m ignoring. Should be a Clause in sickness and health and sex also!
Susan, I have one word for you “intimacy “ and all the other women that do not understand the difference between intimacy and sex.
You have no idea how ignorant your statement is. I bet you think all men are stupid as well.
Men are not mind readers. I can’t say all women are like this but the handful I have been with do not talk about what feels good to them or what they would like me to do and/or do differently.
Never once I have ever forced myself in any way on my wife. As a matter of fact, if she’s not enjoying herself, I stop. 90% of my enjoyment of sex is seeing her turned on an having a rip roaring time. If she’s not in the mood neither am I . Sounds to me like you’ve picking your men from the bar.
Amen. Susan!!! I would like to add that many women also feel a great deal of resentment which builds over time… I had literally experienced everything you mentioned in your post and then I had a bilateral mastectomy and chemotherapy for breast cancer. Thrown into menopause way too young. I cannot take any form of estrogen and I literally have lost all desire. Sex is extremely painful, regardless of whatever I use to try and counteract the problem.
There is some offensiveness directed towards men but I can benefit from your observations. Emotional connection is the starter and it is counterproductive if her man is resentful or walking around with head down and needy. She needs emotional connectivity even without the expectation of sex, just because it is kind.
Also from a masculine point view primordial guttural sex that is still controlled contributes to female orgasim. (Side note: why do women get to have multiple organisms?)
You’re the only one here who gets the dynamic. Also add to the equation what is another possibility here: sexual coercion. Pls look this up to see if this is you.
I cannot speak for everyone, but I think we are all sexual beings with desire. Add to this many complications: conditioning from childhood, feeling you are being used for someone else’s pleasure, not being attracted, not meeting your partner at the same emotional level. All this can cause a person to go into anger and hibernate
I’m 47 and this happened to me. Sounds like you had a good long run and shouldn’t be complaining. I fail to see the point of continuing further. I must be cursed.
Over 12 years no sexual contact. Weekly turned into Monthly then every 3 or 4 months question about sex. Answers where “we can talk about it” or I’m busy right now.
Now masturbation does not work so well. So I explained this to her and said if she cannot work it out with me I would have to find some other way. A subtle way of saying I will date outside the marriage. A marriage I have no interest in ending, ever. I still love my wife dearly and I am committed to her but I have to take care of myself. 2 weeks later I spoke to her again and ended up asking if she knew what I was suggesting. She replied yes. Sigh… I don’t even want to see anyone else. I mean how do you do that if your married? I’m just sad and trying to figure things out.
Just get out Stan. Have affairs and visit escorts. Women aren’t suitable for long term monogamy. They can go months and years without sex – and then the menopause hits and then they’re completely done.
It all goes to show that marriage is worthless and now even worse because there is no sexual obligation. I’ve been teaching this to other young men for some time.
Now man up, and ditch her!
While it’s true that marriage isn’t for everyone, it certainly isn’t worthless. That you are incapable or unwilling to engage in a relationship with a woman as an equal says a lot more about you than it does about marriage. That you would elevate paid sex with a stranger above the shared intimacy and love found only after years together as partners says even more.
Absolute rubbish!
My husband will not have sex with me anymore. I am desperate. He started blaming his medication but when I checked that out he moved on to another excuse. I can’t live another 30 years with him like thus. So selfish and controlling . Outwardly to friends he seems a good husband, and he is BUT he will not have sex as he dies not fancy me anymore! Let’s separate then….NO! He will not talk about that either.
I am not happy at not having anymore sex in my life at age 64, but I do care for her and she does care for me, not in the sexual way of course. For me she is the best woman I have ever been with. She even said to me that I should leave if I am not happy, she prefers that I do not, but basically what she is saying is that if I want to stay, this is the way it’s going to be.
Please, do us all a favor and retire from the one thing you SHOULD be retiring from-giving advice.
I’m in the same boat. Mostly sexless for ten years and when I talk to her she just says, I’m not attracted to you anymore, so get a girlfriend. I felt like she just gave me away to anyone emotionally and physically.
Stan,
While I understand where you are coming from, what if (as in my case) it is a physical.problem that is the cause. My wife and I had a beautiful sex life until she started to have complex female problems that resulted in a partial histerectomy and even after the procedure she finds sex very painful. Even to the point that when she gets sexually turned on it still causes her pain. For the most part, her doctor (A woman) has told her that it was time to give it up.
Due to bi-polar, I have had a strong sex drive since I can remember. That being said, my wife and I married young.
We were both virgins when we married. I was being shipped out to Vietnam and we both were afraid of losing eachother.
Well, I am more than happy to say that our marriage has lasted for over 56 years and I know that we are still together mostly due to the fact that we are best friends. I can’t imagine a marriage/partnership where that wasn’t the case.
Our sexual problems are much more complex because I have accepted the fact that she really wants to be intimate but the cost is too high. We can’t really talk about it because the very subject causes her great depression because she feels like it’s all her fault and that she is failure as a lover. Believe me when I say that she has really tried and every time it has turned out badly, I really feel like an ass for going along with the effort the she was making.
My biggest problem is that my wife is very, very against porn and at my age I cannot attempt to relieve my tension without it as a point of focus.
My doctor has tried several medications to stop any and all sexual feelings that I feel , but the side effects have always been so adverse that none of them worked out.
During the first twenty- five years of our marriage we were both church goers and sent our son to Catholic schools, but we both now feel that religion doese’t always have all the answers.
Here after all of this, what I am trying to say Stan, is if you feel as if your wife really and truly does not want to have anything to do with sex, maybe, as with my wife, her spirit has been broken and if that is the case, she very much needs your understanding more than ever before in your marriage.
Richard C
Sometimes the answers are only inside of us.
If you guys love your wives and wanna stay till death and your having problems with containment, I lost all desire because I have no testosterone so it’s been a God send to me. I love my wife dearly after 52 years and great grandchildren I would have my junk removed before I hurt my family and our long marriage is a point of great pride and example for these people God allowed us to have in our lives. If you must you could think castration out of love.
Being in a sexless marriage is great, we haven’t had sex, intimacy togetherness for 40 years. Married a little over 50 years! We try not to get in each others way and we haven’t had a conversation in years. It’s just not worth my time to talk to her, all I get is whining, complaining and that’s exhausting.
I wish she would just go away and never come back, she’s got just about everything I own. But I have my workshop where I fix cars and my wood shop. People might think I’m lonely but I’m not, I work alone and I get all the right answers talking to my self.
i feel for you my spouse stopped being interested in sex 20 years ago at my age 51,for many years we had some extrem arguments and are still having them,,, to no avail what do you do. i do not want to go outside the marriage so i guess living with the problem is the. only issue
It may sound strange, but I actually take some comfort out of reading other people’s comments and stories: I am not alone… I also dearly love my wife and would never leave her, but a sexless life (10+ years) is the sad reality.
I do raise the issue with her from time to time. She understands that it’s hard for me, but we both don’t know what to do about the situation. We’ve never had an argument about it, because I’m always careful not to sound like I’m accusing her. But it also means we’re in a status quo that just isn’t satisfying.
I don’t know where to start. We dated for 30 years and finally got married. We never had sex before marriage and on our wedding night he rolled over and went to sleep. He snores so he sleeps in his own bedroom. We have been married 10 years and he has never touched me in an intimate way, or never had sex or even tried. He will once in a while hold my hand for about a minute and always gives me a peck on the check before he goes to bed. He has type 1 diabetes and is impotent so I can understand the no sex, but no hugs or cuddles or anything? We are starting to fight a lot and twice I heard him on the phone throwing me under the bus to someone. I told him I heard him doing that and I told him if he ever did that again I would divorce him. Every time he gets mad he threatens to move out. Sometimes I wish he would go. Please help.
Dang! I find that unfathomable. The guy is obviously attracted to you and enjoys your company or why the 30 year dating? So, maybe you need to think about going back to being friends and not husband and wife? Arguments and maltreatment are nothing to put up with. I’d be saying goodbye!
I am a married woman of 69 and my husband (also 69) lost all interest in sex quite some time ago. We’ve been married nearly 39 years and needless to say the last couple of decades I could have done without his aloofness. I have tried to keep myself in shape, etc., and he is certainly in fairly good shape too. In addition, he doesn’t suffer from ED or any other similar issue, but he seems to feel that sex is for procreation and once that part of life is over (as it surely now is), so is sex! Basically though, he refuses to talk about this issue with me – or anyone else, namely a doctor/therapist, and claims he likes our life the way it is. Unfortunately I don’t, as it seems we’re merely friends but certainly not lovers! In fact, I don’t even feel we’re friends at this point, as we rarely speak to one another (unless I initiate a conversation) and whenever I try and initiate any affection or even merely suggest sex, he bristles, becomes hostile and defensive and that’s that. He then sits and reads for hours on end. To me, he’s practicing classic avoidance and he simply closes up emotionally. This isn’t totally new for him either. It’s not that he’s a bad person – he’s not – but at this point he’s kind of like a zombie.
I’ve always had this feeling from the first of our marriage that he felt somewhat uncomfortable having sex but that it was “permissible” if we were trying to procreate, but never just for fun or enjoyment. I thought during the first couple of years of our marriage that I was imagining this but I now realize I wasn’t (since he recently stated how we weren’t trying to procreate any longer, so why bother with sex.). He claims to love me and just wants to continue on with what I consider a rather boring, dreary – and certainly sexless – marriage! Really, I may as well just be rooming with a friend at this point in the game. Again, he has no interest in sex and doesn’t even like me seeing him naked – say getting out of the shower, or undressing, etc.. And, he remains curled up and turned away from me in bed at night. We may as well sleep in separate beds at this point. Frankly, I’m ready for a change of scene because this is like living with someone who it seems might be happier living off by himself.
Oh my goodness you sound so defeated. My only suggestion would be to get out of this marriage and fast. Your husband, not even talking to you must be so hard on your self esteem. You have to find a life without him. If divorce is not an option then get involved outside the home. Join as many groups as you can, and leave him at home. Enjoy your life as my dear friend you only go around once. He is a selfish person he is only thinking of himself. Not you at all by the sounds of it. Take care of yourself. Now ASAP get a life please.
I have the same situation you describe, almost to a T. The only thing that’s worse is that my husband is sneakily still interested in porn and satisfying himself when I’m not around. That’s what’s even more hurtful. Is this the case with your guy or does he nave no urges at all?
Wow. I mean the guy has a woman more than willing to get playful and see what happens and he uses porn? What the heck! I’d say he has some other issues.
For me, it’s been 8x in 3 years…and I’ve tried talking about it with him as frequency has dwindled to essentially nothing. Im just not happy & want much more for in life. He’s had issues with porn for a long time. Yes, it’s so hurtful and completely discouraging. love him & my family and we’ve been married for 34 years & 5 years before that. I want to turn things around and not give up but it’s a huge blow to what I thought marriage and my life would be.
Yes. I am guilty of that. And I’ve been caught too. She looks at it like I was cheating on her. But…. As I recall when we first started dating we were watching porn together. So…..
I’ve got wonder if she really was just needing something to be mad at me for.
When someone Denys you something so fundamentally important, it is Not Cheating to
Save yourself it is merely self preservation.
Anything less is slow sewer side.
We ar living parallel lives! Truly!
I feel for you for my wife always have said I will make you feel good but then don’t try to do anything .. I want to be involved in sex to enjoy the feeling of being loved by a woman.. in bed nothing happen just sleep. What do you think a man can do and should do in these cases ??? Risk cheating get a divorce or anything ??? Have some fun with someone now and then would help .. any reply on if cheating what to look at to find someone … Where???? Not a bar person.. any any suggestions
The situations here are not just issues for straight couples. I was in a 22-year same sex relationship in which sex dried up after we had been together about 5 years. She wanted me to be sexual with her, but would not reciprocate. Then she was diagnosed with scleroderma shortly before I had a kidney transplant. Sex ended, period. There were a lot of issues toward the end of our marriage, and we divorced. I enjoy sex, but I am often fatigued and have low energy. I hope to eventually meet another same sex partner willing to take her time and see what works. My ex is 70; I am 63.
we have been married about 22 years. First few years sex was great. 2 children later sex was still fun. Well a few years ago sex began to get less and less. The wife does not want to start sex and me asking her OVER and OVER and OVER got to her and her rejections and excuses got to me felt like there is always some excuse. well, about a year ago she took it upon herself to say no more sex. she says when she and I are close she gets panic attacks and anxiety attacks. I ask why she said it is just how it is. well she decided we will not have sex, and to top it off, she has panic if she touches me and me touching her. I mean, we have a nightly generic kiss and slight hug say goodnight. that is all there is. oh when either of leave the house or return there is a generic kiss. But no cuddling, spooning, showers, surprise hugs or squeezes, in bed we may as well be cousins or brother and sister as we just sleep on our own side and no touches. there is NO physical connection PLUS no sex. so that leaves to so totally frustrated angry resentful and I hate to say it but it is beginning to I think turn to “I hate her”. So around our house it is whispered, why is he mad? why is he grumpy? He never smiles? He is always sitting alone. etc…. she and I cannot even sit on the couch and watch TV as she scoots away from me. Oh, and me driving the car, she has panic attacks and asks I don’t drive. Holy Cow, I have about had it. Divorce is not an option, But when the second son moves out to college there is an option I take his bedroom AND there is an option I go on an extended car road trip for a few months. I asked her how long will this take for you to get over this panic stuff. (she has seen a councelor) and she this has gone on for years and may take years to heal and maybe I will never heal. I said well, (while pointing to my head) by the time you “heal” I will have checked out up here, I will be looking at women and wondering if they would be fun to be with. She said, YOU WILL LOOK AT OTHER WOMEN?! I said I am a human male and I have basic needs. So our talking about this topic usually ends up in an argument or one of us so ticked off we could scream.
Man, that’s no way to respond to your wife, person you care deeply about who’s saying to you that they’re experiencing mental health crisis in your relationship. You need to talk to her and get to the root of what’s causing her panic and anxiety whenever she gets close to you; when she feels comfortable and that whatever major issue there is, gets resolved, maybe your sex life will return. I totally understand how lingering issues in a relationship make it ridiculously hard to want to have sex.
Bull. Mental health issues don’t appear out of nowhere for no reason. Either something happened that made her feel that way or she’s lying.
You need to be in the counseling with her because if there is no goal to overcome the issue then it’s just a feel good talk of sympathy and that’s not treatment.
Yeah. I bet there’s either something from you, or she’s hiding a big lie.
You need to know.
Thank you Jeff! Finally someone is pointing out this is not a divided hate forum. Thank you for indiviualizing yozr response.
I totally understand your story. I am 50 and she is 45 but she began having the same symptom that you described.
It is sad and hurtful and I felt she only did me favor to have sex with me.. We have 3 young kids so divorce is not an option and I had been sleeping in guest room for almost 6 months now..
It Might pass , 45 is menopausal years and I was once told by a friend older than me at the time that it can be like a light switch once you are through menopause and that can be true because what drives sexual desire , it has much to do with hormones and post menopause or during, a women losses a tremendous amount of hormones and hormone replacement ( they will many x use birth control for that) makes one sick or intolerant and I have read many articles in the past that hormone replacement can put one of high risk of cancer in older women, please I am far from a Dr. not even close, but this is what I have gathered along the way. You cannot force desire no matter what you do or if it is the other partner, same thing.
I feel your frustration. My situation isn’t as severe as many here. Yet even in my early 60’s I have stronger desire than my partner does. I always aimEd to please her with oral sex preceded by lots of massaging, rubbing, kissing etc. she tolerates oral sex only minimally due to some sensitivity she can never explain. I always ask if I’m doing the right things and she says yes. Now when it comes to my receiving oral sex to orgasm? No way not ever. I really miss a girlfriend I used to have who loved giving me oral sex. All the way. That was then and she is gone now. And the sex with my current partner is always strained because she doesn’t show any real passion or desire to let go. I always talk to her and ask what turns her on. It’s always ‘ whatever you want’ then she lays there kind of tense. It’s a bummer most times. To you guys in a sexless marriage for years, and she won’t even talk to you about it? Please go find someone else to enjoy sex with if you can. You’re saying I love her, etc etc and she couldn’t care less? He’ll go out and get what you can as long as it’s safe and mutually desired. If I was better looking and could make the time to find a willing partner I’d do it because sex has dwindled a lot in the last ten years. I’d go get some attention somewhere if I could. Life’s too damn short for no pleasure.
Rejection soon turns into resentment. Resentment Color’s your entire relationship gray. It’s bad. That’s what hurts me is the constant rejection. Makes me feel worth less…not worthless….worth. Less. Like, what’s wrong with me? Am I ugly? Am I undesirable? Do I disgust her? That leads to “ I don’t like you”. That leads to no communication and uselessness.
It has been 5 very long years for me. And I still don’t even know why! Nothing physical.
I am 79 and my wife is 75 and our sex life is as good as ever. But certainly different than when we were younger. Maybe not as often or intense, but more tender
Life is complicated… and gets more complicated as we get older. Think of the biblical verse Ecclesiastes 3. For everything there is a season
Yes, life is complicated indeed, but I don’t believe there is a “season” for sex and then not a “season” for it. Just because one grows older doesn’t mean that sex is over. Life is complicated at every age but I think as people age, hormone levels drop – of course – and the baggage of decades gone by begins to weigh heavy on both parties. However this does not mean that sex should just cease and it’s quite difficult for one party in a marriage or long term relationship to just do without something like this because the other party has lost interest (or is depressed), or whatever. I think in many cases a therapist is in order but if only one party wants this and the other refuses to address the problem or go to a therapist, then the stalemate will undoubtedly continue unabated until well, divorce or death, whichever comes first!
The Bible says to not deny one another because it leads to stumbling. It also says that we are to make our bodies our patents, not ours. This isn’t one of those seasons things, she believing a lie from the devil to her, to destroy your marriage. That lie: it’s not important, only if you want it. Satan worked this into the sexual revolution and feminism (not that either were inherently bad) so that his message has overtaken THE Word of God that says tons of times to do it and do it often.
You should know the truth brother.
Amen.
God as our designer and maker knows what is best for us. Feminism has a lot to answer for; there seems to be too many mismatched females being vocal, when this has been a male affliction to be saddled with an undersexed female. At least the replies here seem to reflect this, noting that the opposite can and does happen.
As we age we need to look at things with a different perspective. Sexuality is just part of the human condition but a life partner who is no longer interested or capable of providing that experience must be respected and understood. It isn’t about the phone or computer. There is a lot more going on there
The problem with respecting a partner who doesn’t want sex any longer, is that the other person who does want sex needs to be respected too. It’s a two-way street as are most things in marriage. Someone who spends all their time on the computer or their phone is looking for something or someone other than the person they are with. I agree, there is more going on than just someone spending all their time doing other things. They may be finding fulfilment on the computer/phone with others (just a guess) and so that’s a big problem right there. Counseling is usually the way out but unfortunately most people in a relationship don’t want to go that route (or at least one of them doesn’t). And there is another problem: When two people don’t want the same things in the marriage or relationship (like trying to fix what is wrong), then there is often no solution other than plodding along as before. That’s a depressing thought too.
I am 62 years old and a healthy man with sexual needs. My wife and I lost our beloved son several years ago. It destroyed us and our marriage for all intents and purposes. Our devastation has completely made intimacy and sex impossible. The only relief that I get from my pain is physical pleasure. Drugs and orgasm. I need to be held by a mature woman and caressed and brought to orgasm. There is only so much I can fantasize masturbate and flirt. I tried internet sex and while interesting it is not enough. I so badly need a woman
And really don’t know what to do. And please don’t tell me counseling.
Hey Mike, I don’t think you need a woman, I don’t think drugs and orgasm are the best ways to deal with the pain dealt to you by the tragic loss of your loved one. You have your wife, intimacy is so much better than busting a nut and orgasming, why does this make us feel better? There’s more to life than that, there’s more to life than escaping…there’s connecting deeper with your partner, taking more trips, spending more time together, learning more skills, building or supporting others together, getting involved in your communities more!
I would walk a mile in this man’s shoes before I offer advice. With out being rude . You definitely don’t get it. Very few people in my club and I sincerely hope not many more people join
Mike G,
I know that it sounds crazy but I never thought about it but that part of “our” problem came to a head after our 35 year old son (our only child) was killed in an ” on the job” accident. Shortly after, our daughter in law and our granddaughters moved out of state. We have had little to no connection with them since. We tried and tried to get them to call us but their mother has convinced them that I am to blame for our sons death. ( I told him about the job opening). If that is in fact part of the problem, then there nothing that I can do or hope to do.
But I still feel that my wife is my one and only best friend and while I may be frustrated , I will always hold that more dear than anything else.
Rich B
I am 64 and my wife has withheld sex with me for the the last 5 years. It makes me sad, and we have talked it out and sadly there is just too much sadness and pain in our relationship for this situation to ever be resolved. There is just so much fantasizing, flirting and masturbating that I can do. I have tried internet sex and it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t enough. I think that for me I need the human touch of a mature woman. So the time has come to find a willing older gal and have an affair and feel alive and like a man again…
Thanks for listening
The LW sounds like a loving and considerate husband. His needs count too.
A sexologist is not going to be able to overcome a lack or imbalance of hormones.
I cannot believe that is wasn’t suggested that the LW’s wife work with a functional doctor who can work with plant based bio – identical hormones that can probably increase her desire. Additionally, she should see an endocrinologist who can check her thyroid. It is very common for middle aged women to wind up being hypothyroid.
I sincerely hope is wife is open to exploring options. If his wife refuses to explore solutions he will need to tell her the following.
“Sweetie, I love you with all my heart and it saddens me that you have no interest in intimacy with me and refuse to explore any potential solutions. If that is the way you feel I will respect that, but I need YOU to understand and RESPECT my needs.
Would you prefer I see prostitutes or have a girlfriend on the side to take care of my needs?
I am 53 and my wife is 55. She started the menopause change about 3 years ago, however sex prior to that was maybe every few months for probably 7 years. We are both quite healthy but she has little interesting sex now. We do love each other though. Perhaps every month or so she gives me a handjob, rarely a BJ. The one thing she always wants when she touches me is that I come on her tits….which I love. We try vaginal sex sometimes but even lubing doesn’t help all that much. She doesn’t complain about helping me out but intercourse is quite painful for her and I don’t want to press it if she’s in pain. She has no interest in any positions other than missionary even though I love other positions. I literally want sex daily and extremely sleep deprived because many nights I am rock hard all night long. I don’t masturbate much because I would prefer to be with her. She knows this but never initiates. I guess my story isn’t as bad as many. Sometimes I just want fuck all night long but the woman I love has no interest. She mentioned that I find a sex partner…I don’t know.
Many seniors are in the same situation and we feel your pain. Maybe we should start a group
Wow! At least your wife gives you a hand job AND wants you to Cum on her tits!
Better than NO sex of any sort for 10+ years, and being rediculed for masturbating.
Count your blessings mate!
I was going to say “you lucky lucky bastard….”
Maybe let her pick the sex partner and she may want to be a side participant in it, could always ask : )
Its been13 years no sex for me.l…been married42 years…..her phone and internet are more important than me
I can’t believe a respected Sex Therapist has “Keep Masturbating” as an answer. I know that feeling of the Phone etc being more important. My wife never initiates any form of Intimacy let alone Sex. I absolutely adore my wife/partner I love her dearly and would do anything for her. Sadly that BIG thing was “Give Up Sex” and just get over it. Why is it that Men are the ones left out in the cold Masturbating in the dark. I appreciate there are many reasons MANY reason wives don’t want sex and No one can or should force them to have to sex. But they can FORCE their partners to NOT have sex and No one seems to want to talk about that. None the less partners have to also accept it is something you don’t get used to or get over. There is only one person I love adore and desire. We have been together since the 80’s and there is No ONE else I want to be with. After being away for a month I lay there hoping to speak to to my wife and greet her in the morning after a long nights sleep. NO! The phone started beeping and making its different sounds at 630am. My wife sleeps through most of this so I try to keep quiet and let her sleep. Then she wakes and l turn my head to see her reach across pick up the phone and begin scrawling through and tapping away. I didn’t even get a goodmorning after a month away. I don’t understand. Women have all these excuses and fare enough many of them are legitimate but some of it is disconnecting. If it was the husband doing that wives would be screaming “How dare You”. I would love to be greeted with a smile, a cuddle a thoughtful touch but nothing. For me my wife has me feeling guilty and hesitant and re framing from touching her in any way. I am not allowed in the shower/bathroom when she is showering or changing. I have respected all she has asked and continue to do all I can to let her know I love and adore her. She is a poor communicator and no matter how much I ask she gives me the silent treatment and thinks its OK. I know we are very different people and and I am not trying to change her as much as letting her know the effects of being so distant and often dismissing my feelings yet I have to be totally responsive to her to keep her happy. We went to a therapist who separated us and I thought that might help her confidence. The therapist totally forgot about me as my wife did. 18 months later I was told NO sex, by the way we had not had regular sex for near 15 years, and Sexless for near 10. I have kept fit and kept busy. I demonstrate my love for her in so many ways, little notes, letters, flowers messages in song, other women including young women I work with say they would love to have someone who loves and respects their partner and relationship like I do. (That is very thoughtful, I do all those things because my wife is Special and I want her to be happy) I have always shared the housework and don’t mean picking up my clothes yes I am defensive because women don’t believe med do housework. I have done the majority of housework including doing the major role of raising our children from Pre school to leaving home. I cook and currently renovating the home again only to hear “That’s great, Now what about the bedroom?”. Sorry Mate. Got lost there. To see my wife go direct to the Phone on the first morning home and second morning home was very upsetting. I appreciate that No outside agency or individual can fix anything yet they get their fix of adulation with tired Info. I am so tired of these therapists and all there “lets support the one who doesn’t want sex but dismiss the one who is still in love and desires romance more than anything with KEEP MASTURBATING”
Sorry Mate. Didn’t mean to lump all this on You but your comment triggered something.
Take care.
Regards Glenn.
Glenn, as a man to another man; it’s time to let that person go. You deserve to be happy in your life as well. You need to find a woman who respects you and wants to be intimate with you on a consistent basis. You have put up with so much bull shit it is sickening. What I’m getting from these posts is that woman don’t even want to try alternative ways to fulfill their husbands. Shame on all you women who have men that are committed and loving to you!!
Wow wish my hubby was so attentive as you! mine forgot my birthday this year (it is 2 days before his lol) and our wedding anniversary : ( I can not compete with his online game omg he plays 24-7 so I can relate to your problem with your wife choosing the phone over you thats cold.
Ed if your still out there… I have the same view as you do on the phone and web. My wife I encourage to have her hobbies and she is a nice person. Not easy for her to open up and talk about things…been that way all of our married lives..43 plus years. But I noticed the past 3 years she has seldom initiated intimate relations, and I attribute that to she likes to use her ipad and play puzzle / word/ and brain teaser games and does surf her FB some. BUT I agree …If I was an electronic game, or a bead of some kind I would get some attention.. We have had a very good sex life up until a few years ago, and she has had many good sexual adventures. But this past 6 months I see things slipping and I feel we are not getting that closeness and are becoming more distant even though we do many things together.
I think my wife [67] realises that with my having ED she no longer has any potential competition so isn’t obliged to have sex because I wont be straying…and I dont want her to feel obliged,thats as bad as no sex,so the answer, literally, is in my own hands
my husband has done too many drugs and cant get it up its been six years i need sex
Patty,
While my wife does not do drugs or anything like that, she has lost the interest for sex. We had sex once last year and it had been a while prior to that, but she told me that due to the pain and all, she doesn’t want to do it any more. Truthfully, the solo routine is rather old.
With all of that being said, I an understand your frustration.
I have the same problem I love my wife but I need sex
I am really starting to think that sex was not made for pleasure, but for reproduction and when the reproductive years end for a woman, so does her desire for sex diminishes or ends and men that still have a desire, suffer in silence or become broke from a divorce and visiting prostitutes. Seems to me that sex is more important to most guys than it is for a woman.
I am a 52 year old woman who has had a hysterectomy and has gone through menopause and I have always had a high libido and still do. Nothing has changed. My husband has no sex drive at all. He is older than I am but even when we were younger, he was like that. A lot of my friends say their husbands are like that, too. So it’s a trope that the man is always the one with the higher desire and the one left frustrated. The difference is that men feel selfish and entitled, as if sex is only for their pleasure, something women do for them, hence the phrase “put out”. Sex is supposed to be for the mutual benefit of both partners, not one person using the other. When women feel used and men don’t ever reciprocate, of course they lose interest. I still love my husband because our relationship doesn’t revolve around sex and we can show each other love and affection in many other ways. It is frustrating, but I would never give up our marriage over it.
Hi Mary
Thanks for your candid note.
I am in your same position but from the other side – I am a 64 year old healthy, active man.
My wife of 43 years has no need for sex except very infrequently and then only quick missionary. I have to listen to her telling me I am fat etc.
I love her but I need sex – I cant survive with masturbation, being with a woman and everything that goes with it is so important to me.
I am starting to go to prostitutes – is this wrong?
Yes, totally wrong. You risk losing it all for the same quick minute that you already have with your wife. Wake up. Spend the same time you are researching and pursuing prostitutes…working out and looking healthier and bettering your relationship. This is not rocket science, bro.
Hello Mary I can imagine how frustrating it it is for you.I am 65 years old and my wife is 64.My wife is on anti-depressants and she says that she has no desire for sex We have been married for 44 years now.I last had sex about 8 years ago My wife is a very beautiful woman and I am absolutely so frustrated and find that looking at porn and mastubating is not ideal anymore, What I need is a woman, but I am afraid to approach another woman for sex for the fear of rejection, I do not want to have sex with a prostitute
Alan: There are internet sites where both sexes are looking for only sex such as Friends With Benefits (FWB) and there is a large percentage of either sex on the sites that are married, love their spouse, but need sex.
You can lease a studio apartment with all invoices going to a mailbox number and it is much cheaper then a hotel or motel and not nearly as risky to prying eyes. Another option is to buy a boat with an onboard cabin, but dont use it with the wife as you dont know what is left.
I have suffered from severe sexual dysfunctions all my life, since I started having sex as a teen. When I was single I would simply break off a relationship when the sexual problems would start. But after putting off marriage until I was 40 it too became sexless right after the wedding. That was 28 years ago. The marriage is fine except for the sex. We went to a number of therapists but none were able to help. So I disagree when people say leave the marriage as soon as the sex stops. According to my research MOST sexless couple don’t divorce. They learn to accept the situation and carry on with life.
I was married for 24 years. We signed for our first mortgage when she was in ICU with fourth-stage cancer. The last time I had sex was in 1997. Never unfaithful. Though she died quickly sex was never discussed and I can assure you my marriage was a bed of rock. Since abstinence for so long I’m wondering what will happen if a woman takes an interest in a 70-year-old man.
I am 64 and met a 75 widower for 13 years whom exercises, takes a natural supplement to help with blood flow, and takes occasional viagra. We see each other on a daily basis staying busy to supplement our income and find time to make love once per week. Once we get a savings built up, we are going to enjoy life and enjoy ourselves even more.
Martin:
I am 75 years old and in average physical shape, walking and bicycling and playing some doubles net games. I go to the library and read and hunt there…lol. I dress modern and trendy and catch the eye of younger women as well. I go into dept stores and woman’s shops and buy small inexpensive items and gift same to woman as souveniers of our meetings, conversations, fun times. Of course the gifts always have an accompanied story…in my travels I bought….you know
I think it was William Shakespeare who pondered what an irony it was that desire usually so outlasts ability. My wife and I have been married 20 years. We married late, were both 40, and our sex life was fantastic. Now both in our early 60s, she has lost the desire for sex and has pain issues as well. I have hypertension and medications have affected my ability to get an erection. But I still love my wife dearly and have no desire to cheat on her. I hear a lot of men on here talk of leaving their wives over this. I am sorry but I think that’s just nuts. Look, we have all pretty much aged our of sexual adventurism but our minds refuse to accept it. And it’s understandable, it’s a very hard thing to accept. But it’s not worth destroying something that you took years to build. Be grateful you were able to find someone in life to love and be loved by, many of us take this for granted not realizing how many lonely people there are out there who were never as lucky as we have been. Take stock of all the good things you still have in your relationship that you might not find again. And lastly, don’t discount masturbation as a solution. Technology is at an amazing point for this right now. I am talking about virtual reality and toys for Men like the flesh light, that can at least make the situation bearable. It has worked for me and I highly recommend it as an alternative to just giving up.
Look, I am an RN and living with a man who is 5 years older than me. It’s not always the woman who has no interest. In fact, I recently read that most sexless marriages are due to lack of desire in the men.
My 20 year marriage imploded because my husband completely lost his testosterone at age 55. It was not measurable in his blood. An endocrinologist told me he had never seen that before.
I am 64 now and have had some vaginal atrophy, which made penetration hurt, but I take a vaginal pill twice a week. My sex drive is strong but now my boyfriend, who is 5 years older than me, is on hypertension medicine and his testosterone is on the last number of normal. He has no interest. He also has an enlarged prostate and his GP said that testosterone therapy could bring on cancer.
I love him and am a bad lier, so using masturbation as a release.
I have had a suspicious breast biopsy. When I have a follow up, with a surgeon next month, even though it is not cancer, I will discuss wether or not I should give up the vaginal hormone. I am beginning to think that we are supposed to get old. Hormonal therapy can give you cancer, stroke. Even too much Viagra can cause things like blindness.
When a woman looses her ovaries and/or had a hysterectomy the sex drive goes. Why do you think Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt got divorced?? To the men out there, moaning about their wives loosing interest, think about how you would feel after loosing your testicles.
You are so right. Not many people enter their senior years wit an active sex life, some do, but not many.
It is not the loss of testicles as much as the loss of the prostate gland. Prostate cancer is the #1 cancer in older men and when the prostate is removed during surgery it makes a man totally impotent – no erection, no ejaculation, no orgasm plus total incontinence which means the post cancer patient needs to wear Depends diapers for the rest of his life.
It’s one thing to have trouble with arousal, or other sexual difficulties. It in no way makes it reasonable or responsible to simply do nothing about it If you’re in a relationship, and you just throw your hands up and say, “Oh, sorry about your luck honey, but we’re just going to carve the physical intimacy out of our relationship, and pretend it doesnt matter, ” then YOU, my friend, are a cruel and selfish asshole.
Here is what the problem is when it comes to SEX. Women fall in love with their husbands have kids and having kids taking care of the kids 99.99% and working full time or taking some class to better your job. When your husband keeps getting fired and he sits on the computer all day and rarely does anything around the house but bitches and complains about this or that and he puts you down and calls you names. When a wife who has to cook, clean, take care of the kids, do the laundry, pick the kids up from school and take a couple of classes she is too tired to perform another task after all that she has done in one day. Yes, he may have more energy then she does because he did nothing all day but insulted her and her lack of sex. When having sex she has to do most of the work especially when it takes him 45 minutes to get hard and all she wants to do is go to sleep because tommorow will come before she knows it or if one of the kids wakes up because they couldn’t sleep or they are sick. Who gets up and takes card of them? Not the husband it’s always the mom. Or when she does get in the mood again 45 minutes to get hard and going and he is done like always within a minute and he rolls over and goes to sleep. Not once does he try to get her off, he just rolls over and goes to sleep. I’ve read where most men think the woman should spice up their sex lives to keep the man from cheating and those kind of men are lazy. Really? After everything a woman does in one day compare to what most lazy men would say. I bet if a man did ever6a woman does in one day he would not bitch about sex he would pass out. If men want more sex the this is what you should do. 1. Help out around the house and stop making your wife do everything. 2. Get a better paying job so she doesn’t have to work her butt off. 3, stop calling her names and no more fights with give you more chances of having sex with her that night. Most woman will get turned off by men putting us down and there is no way we will reward you by having sex with you and if you wait until the next day to be s jerk after having sex with make less likely for you to get I. Between her legs the next time.4, stop watching porn if you know this makes her feel uncomfortable as we all know when men watch porn that will lead into you not being able to get it up for her because you have been watching photoshops porn and all you want is that fake lady so you go out and cheat on your wife then come home and accuse her of cheating and that’s why she is not having sex with you. If men put in as much energy they put in sneaking around spending money on hookers and put all of his energy on his wife by taking 50% of the household chores and helping his wife out with the kids and having him spice up their sex lives you will see more action in the bedroom then before as long as you are sweet and loving towards her you will always get lucky. Men you just need to treat her like you used to treat her before you married her every day and she will keep treating you like she did before you married her. Why waste your money and time on hookerd? And for the love of god stop watching fake porn. Make your own porn and watch that. It’s such an insult to your wife when you guys do that and .makes us ashamed of our bodies especially after having your baby we will never get our bodies back the same way it was before we got pregnant and you watching porn with photoshops were women to look at if they really look like that makes us feel you are body shaming us. Think before you do what you do.
Good points you made for sure. But how does that viewpoint help you find happiness in life?
Unfortunately the one thing that was supposed to save civilization was the internet. Porn is the no. 1 use and money making business on the internet. That leaves us with so many perverts running around today inept at forming a real relationship, “fantasy is in” sadly. It is now marketers more to females also, which isn’t improving relationships.
Oh stfu. I do most of the household chores, she doesn’t work outside the home, and hasn’t since we’ve been married i constantly compliment her looks,I have been striving for decades to “woo” her, and sex is now completely off the table, and she won’t even cuddle or kiss. She doesn’t even let me see her naked. We’ve been married for 26 years, she is 51, and she has had maybe 4 years total where she was interested in sex.
Don’t you dare accuse all men of being selfish and unhelpful. I would be willing to bet the majority of men in our position have gone above and beyond to save our marriages, only to get a SELFISH wife to deny us to the point that we lose all our self esteem.
I don’t know why your husband would even want to be intimate with you, you sound like a harpy.
Totally, completely, utterly NOT true.
BTDT, minus porn or hooker issue(s).
Made ZERO difference other than her doing less and less and expecting more and more. And she was a SAHM for most of ENTIRE marriage of over 30 years. Don’t fall for the “Choreplay” trap.
For the “religious folks”, marriage requires monogamy, NOT forced celibacy.
I hope the partner didn’t expect to share the celibacy. State your case, either put out or leave me get some on the side, because you don’t care. I can’t do that, divorce right away. Go be the cat lady then.
I am 66 and my wife is 62. After menopause she lost interest in sex because of vaginal atrophy. She consulted with her doctor who recommended hormone treatment and her research on cancer had her rejecting that avenue. She would reluctantly use lubrication when I complained and promised to find a solution. She would still complain of pain. These promises went on for three years and sex dwindled to once a week, once a month then stopped altogether. She even stopped expressing affection such as hand holding, goodbye kisses, etc. Now when I express frustration, she will occasionally make a half hearted attempt, but rejects me at the last moment which has brought forth some lack of confidence for me and resentment towards her. I lived with her for a year after a very contentious divorce from the mother of my children who cheated. My ex was 16 years younger then me. My current wife was 49 and I was 54 when we met and sex was twice a day for over a year, When she proposed to me, I raesoned that she was a good friend and sex was more then satisfactory, so I accepted. I realized after marriage that I married her for the wrong reason, more of a rebound to fill something torn from me so abruptly, the love for my previous family(wife and children). Although she initially helped with my toddlers, she eventually lost interest and helped only occasionally. I did some self searching and recognized that the marriage had been one of convenience and the love wasn’t there for me. I have always been an affectionate person and have given affection but not received in return for at least a year. I understand that some people accept this type of relationship and just crave a good friend and companion for the rest of their life.
My father and grandfather were active sexually(we discussed) into their late 70’s. I am not willing to live the last 15-20 years of my life without affection, at least.
She has rejected counseling and even criticizes my masterbation or porn. She actually told me that my friend who went through a similar situation was in need of therapy because his wife caught him watching porn. I know couples who watch it together and I believe my wife and her friend are closed minded and in denial of their contribution, or lack thereof in being that person who can meet the wants and needs of their husbands.
I realize this rant may seem to be about my needs, but I think I deserve the right to a fulfilling life. She may well become that cat lady a previous poster described. I see a divorce in the near future.
stop insultiing cats. Why do men who want more sex end up insulting someone who has a pet? Dont you love anything?
Could I just ask the question? Why, in a relationship, is Sex so bloody important?
I have (age 60+) gone right off sex. And its been going that way for years. My other half dosent get it and keeps going on and on about it. We have had a fall out now and it is the elephant
In the room. Is it something we should split over? We dont really argue and enjoy each others company. Should I let him go elsewhere?
Just feel I want to hide away as I know this is not normal .
If you have to ask what’s so I important about having sex, you must be doing it wrong.
Thomas, I agree! My husband had 19 affairs. At 45 years old I met this man
24 years younger than I. We were together for 14 years. At that time my job became demanding. So I backed off of seeing this person. We still talk, but that’s it. I’m 87 years young and my vibrator is busy. So, Thomas maybe your right they must be doing it wrong.
Ive just seen this ,not sure when posted .ive tried so hard to get wife to have sex .she says menopause.then I gave up.but other we I had a beer and told her how I felt .silly beer a..so she been trying to start sex but my body has closed down to her .im worried ive turned off to her mentally.I do love her but shes noticed im not getting aroused like I used too .and now shes saying I prefer porn, but its how ive got by for so long.its really .mested up.im 53’sorry.
I am also in a sexless relationship, same as others in our 50’s I’m in good shape and she’s overweight, out of shape and depressed. She will not go to any therapy.
She told me after having foreplay she thinks her vagina is dead because nothing arouses her. She had a hysterectomy years ago do to cancer concerns, about 5 years ago she had a stroke like episode but there where no signs of actual stroke damage and she had started botox/steroid therapy in her spinal column for pain issues so there is suspicion that caused it, but because of a possible stroke they won’t give estrogen.
She like others doesn’t want intimacy or sex, which I could deal with for the most part but then she makes remarks about me masturbating or watching porn. Now it’s gotten where I can’t get hard when I’m with her, I’m sure it’s mental causes. I understand women loss interest but still love there husbands and don’t want a divorce and most of the time it’s the same for the guy, I just wish women would be open to their husbands having discreet affairs, not prostitutes just flings. Guys need intimacy too as well as sex and we love our spouses too.
Brother, your story sounds exactly like mine. My wife and my sex life was pretty damn good before she developed breast cancer and had a double mastectomy, even though she went through early menopause (in her 40s). After chemo and radiation, they put her on hormone suppression drugs, which reduced her libido a lot. But then she had a full hysterectomy to further reduce her hormone production, and from then on, sex has all but stopped.
When we DO have intimacy, it usually comprises me masturbating until she finishes me with her mouth (which she still likes to do) and her using one of those power vibrators that sound like a jackhammer to get herself off. Her vagina is dry as a bone and she doesn’t like penetration at all, either from me or her own fingers. Even worse, because I’m larger than average, she can no longer handle my penis even if she wanted to.
(Note to women reading this thread: though the accepted wisdom is women love big penises, I’ve found in my experience that it’s certainly not universal. Virtually every woman I’ve been with, and there weren’t that many, experienced a lot of discomfort with me penetrating them no matter how gentle and slow I took it, with or without lube, and regardless of how excited they were).
Besides intercourse itself, she turns me away when I attempt to initiate some sort of intimacy by kissing or stroking, things she used to love in the past. I also went down on her regularly, and now she doesn’t even want me to try. It’s like she’s ashamed of her vagina. It’s maddening!
Then there’s the masturbation/porn thing. More than once, our perfunctory mutual masturbation sessions were unsuccessful for me because I couldn’t get hard. It’s strictly psychological as I have no problems when alone or watching porn, which she is totally against. So I’m frustrated as hell, but I love her and won’t cheat on her no matter what.
I’m over 60 and I’m learning to accept this is the way life is going to be for the rest of my life.
My spouse of 40 years has no lnterest ln sex ,he does not touch me exsept when on the couch he puts his leg over mine and hugs me before we go to bed as l have scoliosis and need to sleep ln a diff bed we go to places together and we get along he says lt is his prostate which the Dr confirmed but l feel lf he really wanted to he could he says after an o lt bothers him ,l love him,but feel he ls angry at me for stupid mistakes l made in the past not cheating but as cracked up our car ,l just want to feel loved,he bought me flowers for mother’s day but l bitched as. He spent 100.00 on his mother as he forgot to get her a card why can’t he forgive me ? And feel that what ls what the real problem ls ,should l just exsept this he said lt to uncomfortable to have sex due to his prostate he never touches me l own the house but now he says he wants to put lt ln a trust ,as lf l die he gets lt and visa versa can u help me ,he hates talking about lt but made lt clear lt was not me but his prostate he ls also on. High blood pressure
Medication also he ls good to me but his hobby ls everything to him he jokes around with me we are like room
Mates but l want to .feel loved , should l hang lt up and move on ty
In the real world things are very different. I am 64 years old and I have not had sex with my wife for about 7 years, she is 59 years old. She had here ovaries removed due to cancer risk, after sex was painful and pussy all dried up, tried lubes and no luck and still painful when my rock hard penis went in her sweet pussy. She does not like to give blow jobs or hand jobs, so I have to do it myself, jerking off and imagining sex with anyone. Prostitutes are not a good option since all the bad stuff in the sex industry world and I feel that I am too old to move on and I am not a chick magnet. If I was younger, much younger I would have more options. Who knows, maybe something will change as nothing stays the same. Good luck to you all and hope the juices start flowing soon for those that feel deprived.
Hey People, when a woman no longer wants sex with a man, it means she is likely not attracted to him anymore. yeah, in the case of some women, there may be some other things going on w/ the body–who knows. I met a man at work a while back, he was attracted to me, he was in a sexless marriage (so he said). I found him to be the most attractive man I’ve ever met! He was several yrs younger than me, I’ve Never been married & I’ve had a half dozen BFs or so. Only once really in love. Anyway, I was so turned on by this guy (in love too)–that just seeing him or us simply hugging was a major Turn-On. So these women that men here are complaining about, it may just be the attraction towards the man is gone! As far as the guy I liked, nothing ever came of it. I moved on to another job, we did not keep in touch for very long. I think he wanted to stay in his marriage–mainly I think b/c his wife earns well (makes more money than him). Career-wise, she’s doing better than me, so he’s likely out-of-my-league anyway. Too bad, b/c I think I’d be better for him than she could ever be. I’d never treat him as she does! The guy is a magnet! So to the Men out there (here) complaining about their sexless marriages–Move On! Find someone who finds you attractive, become more attractive, get in shape (that’s key). Good luck.
The comments given above is very true. Many marriages have been ruin, husband are sad, desperate, when wives started to isolate themselves. Husband even can not touch her, let alone touch to arouse her. What played in husband mind is that the wife do not care, do not want to have relationship, intimacy etc. What should the husband do.
I never cared about sex when I was 35 or now at 76! Ya over 40 years with out not a problem. The wife was boring and I had to follow so many rules and regulations when it came to sleeping and sex together. Just told her I wasn’t going to follow all her B.S rule and moved out of the bedroom. Slept in basement for a few years until I built my own space that had an apartment and work shop. She has the house and I have my private place seperate from the main house.
My wife of 35 years and I have always had difficulty sexually. I have difficulty ejaculating and often, cannot get erections with her. Together we have seen a number of therapists with not much luck but felt I owed it to her to try and fix things. Unfortunately a couple of years ago I was diagnosed with prostate cancer and under went surgery that shut me don sexually (I couldn’t even masturbate any more) This has killed all hope we had to try and have a sexually normal marriage.
I suggest that you forget about sex and focus more on hugging, cuddling and kissing. Women love that.
That’s it, you said it that’s what the woman loves. That’s great but what about the man? Or does it not matter what the man wants? It’s all about the woman needs not the man.
Except she doesn’t like hugging or cuddling either.
It’s not all about sex – it’s about intimacy, and that is missing.
Well -they don’t. I stumbled here because my wife shows or accepts zero affection , caring or appreciation.
Frankly; it’s time to move on and out . Living alone would reduce frustration of a non-response.
Like I have a total stranger as a house guest.
Absolutely! Intimacy isn’t about sex, it’s about being close in more ways than sexually. I’m 77 and if I felt my husband was dissatisfied with our sexless, but not loveless, marriage, I’d choose to be single. Our world is obsessed with sex and without understanding the unity of compassion, respect, close bonds after many years of being together. Praying for these husbands.
Uhhhhh Pat…women need sex too.
That happens with prostate removal and my father had that and my mother didn’t have to have sex with him anymore
I just had to click on this to see how times have changed. Well, it’s clearly only getting worse. This kind of “if the man would only be more __” advice saturates the internet and it’s usually written by people with degrees instead of wisdom. In this new gynocentric west, the only answer is to find non-western women or women who were not raised in the west. But whatever you do, never go to “therapists”. The vast majority are trained to be misandrists and far too many are grotesquely unethical.
It took many years and visits to a lot of therapists to find out why I couldn’t perform sexually with my wife during our 30 year marriage. Turns out childhood trauma caused me to have an attachment disorder which in turn caused subconscious intimacy anxiety which would then cause me to suffer from severe sexual dysfunctions which turned out to be unfixable. I appreciate the fact that my wife has stayed with. She knows this is a psychological problem and doesn’t reflect how I feel about her.
This was an enlightening comment and reflects what has been my marriage for 35 years. I had four children from a previous marriage, I had a tubal ligation reversal so we could have a child of our own, By serious good luck, we had one. She is 33. That was pretty much the end of a normal sex life, He had a horrific childhood, beatings, a suicidal mother (she cut her wrists in front of her children), infidelity on both sides. Suddenly it all makes sense. It doesn’t necessarily make it better – but it makes sense.
I am 62 and my husband is 63. I have always loved sex with my hubby, but after menopause, that all changed for the worse. I became so dry that sex was painful, we tried different lubricants but nothing really helped much. This went on for years. It got to the point that he wanted sex badly and was about to lose his mind. I knew I had to do something. I found a wonderful woman gynecologist, and she put me on low dose hormone therapy. It literally changed our lives. I am happy all the time, my hair is twice as thick as it was before, I had urge incontinence, which completely disappeared, it cut my knee joint pain in half, and best of all, I love sex again. My hubby is one happy camper. All he needs is that wonderful little blue pill. I have the sex drive I had when I was 20, and I feel like me again. We use a great lubricant called Astroglide, to help things along, good stuff. I am aware of the risks, and am more than willing to live with them, rather than go back to how I was before. My doctor keeps a close eye on me too. She told me that women need estrogen their whole lives, not just up to menopause. I hope this is helpful to someone.
At least you go that far to keep your marriage happy, intake, blessed. Hope your marriage will last till you die you depart. This is the best I have read.
Is your husband on HRT as well? If not he should go on in it. It will resotre his body as well and make you hapoier.
Were you on a low dose of estrogen by mouth. A pill?
If us men were all so lucky! My wife is 61 and I’m 57. She cut me off completely about 10 years ago and refuses to even talk about sex when I try to bring it up. So therapy would be out of the question, and she’d never think about going on anything like low dose hormone therapy. I’m to the point where I’d be happy with an occasional peck on the cheek. Some women have no idea of how belittled this makes a man feel, and it’s not just a matter of getting our rocks off since we can do that ourselves. Just had to compliment you on what you are doing for your husband, and I agree that sex makes you feel young again, and believe when you say that your whole body feels like you’re in your 20’s again.
Thank you for recognizing a very very bad situation and trying to remedy. Your husband is a very lucky man. I’m 55 my name is Tom, I haven’t made love to my wife in nearly 9 years due to her having several medical issues. I love her more than anything in this world. I just can’t keep going like this.
I’m 68 and on bio identical hrt. But my husband has refused to have sex or any physical intimacy for over 10 years. In physically fit. He no longer is and seems relieved to have cardiac issues as an excuse. I hate it and feel so empty and alone but divorce is not an option.
I’ve been reading a lot about this and not come across anyone with a solution apart from no proper sex or divorce.
She says that it’s up to me to deal with it however I choose. I am 60 soon and dread having to try and start again. I am utterly fed up with being in the friend zone or occasionally doing it with what might as well be a sack of potatoes.
Are there any people at all who have actually solved this any other way apart from no more proper sex or divorce?
Hi Davex,
No solution.
I’m 57 and my husband is 56 years old. We are both active and healthy. He shows no interest or emotional desire to engage in sex or affection. We does not seeem to need to hug or cuddle either. We have been Marie’s for 26 years. It’s been a slow process in development, heading to the place we have arrived in our relationship. I have both physical and emotional desires that seem to be building resentment towards him. I’ve communicated my feelings to him many times. He thinks that his low testosterone is the cause of his actions or lack of. I’m not convinced of this because he does not even initiate a kiss.
I am fairly attractive and I. Food shape. I mention this so that you may not assume I’m ugly or out of shape.
If I wish to continue my marriage , I guess I should just accept the situation and carry the cross of feeling unsatisfied. He treats me like a food friend and we do get along otherwise.
Hi Addie,
Thank you for sharing! I’ve lived through a sexless marriage myself. 7 years no sex!!! No intimacy!!! Married 10 years!!!! I feel so much pain amd resentment!!! Awful!!! I am going to be 42 years old!! I want to get divorced and he refuses to accept that our marriage just simply was never a Marriage. Behind heart broken!!! I just want to rebuild my life again, move on, be kissed and touched! Loved and desired! I do not wish this upon anyone!!! I am so angry at him too!!! I didn’t have children hoping and wishing things would change!!! Feel like I wasted my life!!!
Thank you for sharing! I’m 54 and my husband and I enjoy each other’s company but he does not want to engage in physical affection or intimacy. I have tried to have a heartfelt conversation but he is not willing to talk about it. We started dating in high school and never separated. We went to separate colleges and this was before cell phones and computers. We’ve been married for 27 years and have 3 adult children. So I know him well, this is extremely painful and heartbreaking. Holding on and hoping we can work it out, for now I’m giving him space.
Addie,maybe we should trade spouses.lol.im in the same boat you are.i love to get intamate and hug and kiss and cuddle.my wife 0.unreal.she told me the other day she dont even like sex anymore after we had it.how nice to say that.unreal.
Is the meds freak I’m a woman that actually wants it my newlywed husband has no interest but I can tell he feels bad but he’s ex military so he’s to prideful to get pills I’m 41 i been told a lot that I’m beautiful .. ok not going there but I know I’m a catch but even making him food in a nighty doesn’t work he says wow babe thanks am like …♀️
Addie
I wish we were closer because I would love to meet you. I am a little older but want intimacy so bad. It has been years since my wife and I have had sex. I have often thought about having an affair but I just don’t know how to approach going that direction.
It is so sad listening to mostly men talk about their wives not wanting sex. I didn’t either with my late husband Too much cheating etc. I am now dating a man in his 60s, I also am in my 60s and he can’t get erection so he shut down any sexual contact and I am dieing for a sexual relationship. We love each other but no sexual contact leads to a very frustrating relationship. I look good for my age and am so tempted to look for another relationship. I spent 36 years with a man who I was never good enough for and now in a relationship with a man who loves me and is so kind. But no sex. Don’t know what todo he won’t talk about his
Problem or seek medical help
Sadly so, leave! That’s not going to make you happy in the long run!!! If he’s not willing to seek medical help and take pills to be able to have sex, the frustration amd resentment will be so much. Not fun! Take care of your body and mind! Better have the most compatibly with someone ans have a happy fulfilling relationship. Best of luck to you!
He needs to get his hormone levels tested as he is mostly estrogen dominant and low test
U have no choice but to leave!!! What r u holding on for?!
Is this the same advice you would give a man that is in a sexless marriage?
Love is more than sex.
First, do not deny your needs any more than you would deny yourself your favorite food, movie, book or music. Most of my female friends in their sixties are married to men who just stopped having sex, wanting sex, initiating sex or any kind of intimacy. To me, that is emotional abuse. Many men and most women are connected through sexual intimacy. When I say intimacy, I do not mean just intercourse. Sexual intimacy is kissing, hugging, touching, petting, laying baked, masturbating one another, oral sex and that look of intensity that tells you that you are desired.
As we age, women and men need to feel desired and appealing to our partners. I have read here about mostly women who do not desire sex, but let me tell you, men not wanting or giving their female partners sex is an unmentionable crisis in our homes. No one wants to talk about it. Males are not embarrassed about describing a frigid or non sexual wife, but they will never mention their own lack of desire and often get angry if their partner inquires as to why? Women won’t mention it because the rejection we feel each time he puts us off, says no or does not respond to our sexual advances chips away at our self confidence and our souls as being sexually vibrant women even in our late sixties.
Even books on men not wanting sex place the responsibility on the woman. I don’t care what age this happens to a man, somehow the blame goes to the woman for not looking her best,gaining weight, busy with the kids, not willing to give oral sex and the list goes on and on.
How about this? Whether male or female, each of us made a promise to love and honor our partners either through marriage or by living together. Even when a man has had prostate cancer, as my husband has, that does not mean he gets a free pass to close up shop and put his wife on the shelf the rest of her life. Same for women who refuse to engage in sex with their partners. You have made a commitment to one another to do more than go through the daily grind or process of pretending to have a mutual satisfying relationship when in fact, you are simply roommates!
We all deserve to be held, to be touched, to be told and shown we are desired and needed for far more than cleaning a house, fixing a meal or providing a paycheck. I always thought by the time I retired, I would have both the time and energy to truly connect sexually with my spouse without worrying about kids interrupting, getting up early for work or that sex had to be scheduled. We could be spontaneous. I was looking forward to my sexual freedom and massive quantities of sex and orgasms.
When we have been lucky enough to have experienced phenomenal sex with our partners and that has been cut off, that does not mean we stop wanting or needing sex and intimacy. It is more than frustrating it is emotionally and physically painful.
Now after almost 50 years of marriage, I get two aging people going through the motions of life with a hug and a quick peck on the lips because to desire more means I am stressing him out or asking too much. I say bullshit to every man and women experiencing no sex in a relationship if they want it with their partner. It is time to say, “I am horny as hell, and I am tired of pretending I am not because I am over 50!”
If your penis does not work, attempt to fix it. If your vagina is dry, find out why. Fix it. In the meantime,, get naked and take care of your partner’s needs because as you can see on this strand, there are plenty of people out there who will!
Prostate cancer or vaginal dryness does not preclude you from meeting the sexual needs of your partner out of laziness and a lack of giving a shit. Our mouths and fingers still work! I remember when certain words did the trick. The idea that anyone has to resort to porn, masturbating or ignoring their own healthy needs and desires to actually connect skin to skin with their partner while exchanging looks and words of passion and enjoying, it is wrong. There is no excuse for boxing your partner in such a guilt ridden morally compromising prison.
For many of us who have exhausted talking to our partners, asking to have their normal needs met, to be loved and shown love and to be valued and desired but have been met with silence, stares, okay, not interested, I am not in the mood or sleeping in separate rooms, your partner has betrayed your trust and your marriage with emotional and sexual blackmail. They have cheated on us with themselves and their selfishness!
That partner who ignores your tears and tender pleas do not seem to mind your needs going unmet. Where is their allegiance to you? And somehow we have convinced ourselves sex has become less important to us as we age and replaced by the comfort of just knowing we love one another? No way!
That partner has truly not kept theur vow, but have managed to put us in a moral quandary. Do we cheat and risk hurting our wives and husband’s? Do we risk our grown children finding out and not understanding? Well, our partners don’t seem to care they are hurting us.
As the years tick away, I am reminded of going to sleep in one another’s arms, morning sex, spontaneous make out sessions and feeling desired. That never goes away for most women or men. We have been convinced to settle and accept less. Many of us could not conceive of divorcing because we have spent a lifetime waiting around to be shown once again that we are desired by the one person we have shared our lives with and still very much love.
So we settle. Our finances are so intermingled that to divorce means we cut our incomes in half facing either no sex or no home or food. And the source of so many sleepless nights is that person who promised to love and honor us until death dobus part and who still possess a mouth and fingers and the ability to do just that. Honor us with attention and physical contact.
So, let’s be clear. Quit excusing inexcusable behaviors by your partners. State your case to your partners. Be explicit about your needs and expectations. Let them know how their refusal to engage with you sexually has affected you emotionally, physically, mentally and pyschologically. Then ask them what they are willing to do about it once and for all. Get your answer. Then tell them what your plans are or not, but do not put your sexual and intimacy needs on hold the rest of your life because it is the sign you love someone. That partner depriving you of that intimacy does not give a damn what you do just as long as you do not bother them about it or it interferes with their favorite TV show! If they did, they would be taking care of business!
By the way, I love, desire, and adore my husband, but I recognize I will never have my needs met after almost 50 years. I also recognize he has no intentions of changing. It works for him. He is selfish, lazy and quite frankly a self absorbed narcissist. I can live with that, but I can not live with never being touched or made love to ever again.
I thank you for stating in so frank a manner every frustration that has engulfed me for over 40 years. At 73, my 69 year old wife fits the descriptions you have provided to a T. Just replace you, the wife, with me, the husband. I so desired to be held, touched, kissed deeply and often, all the things that love should be about, but it wasn’t to be. All through this past Covid year, only one time did she come forward an say “I need a hug”. i rejected it, because I have become detached, unhappy and frustrated. I was not going to reward her or fall into another hug with nothing more than a few seconds of holding, and then a push off. Now the difficult part. I have rekindled a relationship that ended over fifty years ago with a woman I dated right before I met my wife. She wasn’t as attractive or as fine a dresser, and my adolescent mind didn’t see her as the “choice” for my good looks. I was too vain and just average. But this woman kept me in her heart and mind for fifty years. I was her first love. We weren’t intimate back then, and a quirk of fate brought us together recently. Needless to say, both of us are feeling a renewed awareness of who we were and now are. I think I’m in love and there’s no turning back. I want to separate from my wife of 49 years. We have no children. Figures, right? I’ve slept in my own bedroom for 43 of those years. I caught her in a “flirtation” as she calls it, with her boss. She never apologized. I’ve been humiliated, rejected and told you can have love without sex, because, after all, cripples can’t have sex but they still have love. I rest my case.
Neither partner should have to feel obligated to satisfy the other out of some outmoded quasi religious relief or instruction, my wife is wonderful in many ways but now has reached, she believes, a stage[67] where she has no desire, except release masturbation , thats my misfortune but I try to understand
That was the best written, most solid commentary on this subject I’ve ever read. I’m 63, sexless for many years, and your ‘essay’ really hit home. I’ve been led to believe I’m the selfish one for thinking of leaving ‘just over sex’. If it were just about sex, I would’ve left a long time ago.
Now it’s more about independence- I’m tired of living in my spouse’s value system’’ . Just need the fortitude to go. Thank you, great essay.
Yes! My husband spent hundreds of hours on his phone coming up with scenarios to cope with a diagnosis of peyronies that has impacted our ability to have sex, but has never once gone to you tube to figure out how to give me an orgasm! Maddening! Meanwhile…. Two years and counting, it’s got me climbing the walls!
Thanks for pointing out that marriage therapy can also help with problems about having a sexless marriage. I’ve been thinking about wanting a second child seven years after I gave birth to our first one. Maybe I should start trying to ease my husband into this conversation because we have been having sex rarer and rarer these past few years.
I’m 15 years younger than my husband. The females in my family have unusually strong sex drives. My husband and I both have gained weight. But his belly sticks out a lot and makes it extremely difficult to get in because of 3 things. I am dry (we tried lubricant) and he’s small (always been, but seems more so in his 60s) and he doesnt get or stay very hard at all. Do they shrink with age? I used to ride, but geez that gets old and is still a problem because of the size and lack of hardness. And I love doggie! Which now seems gone forever. We have tried many times and many ways to lose weight, but his belly doesn’t change much and he’s passed his growing stage of life. I love him as much as the air I breathe, but I just wish he would realize I’m suffering and offer that it’s ok for me to have some on the side. I wouldn’t even care if he watched or joined. I get tired of waking up because I realize I’m having an erotic dream and humping the bed. Thats a humiliating feeling. Although he acts like he doesn’t notice and maybe he don’t. It’s super annoying if he touches my breasts because I get aroused and then we just can’t get it going and then so much unanswered frustration comes. I’m in my 50s and after years without feeling that hardness inside me anymore, I often find myself thinking about the next 30 years without. And yeah I can pleasure myself, but that will never be like the real thing. I feel like it’s just my life now. I try to get used to it. But after years without, I can’t help but fantasize about past experiences, which makes me feel SO guilty. He got the pill from the dr, but with his weight and age, I was just too scared for him to try it. All I could think of was him dying because I had to have sex. I went elsewhere a few years back. Although i had told him beforehand that if it didn’t change I would get it on the side. But it nearly tore us apart. The more I got, the more I wanted. I cannot hurt him. He is absolutely wonderful father and husband. I love him more than the day we were married many many years ago. I’d rather die than lose him. He’s my best friend, the love of my life, an amazing Dad, my confidant and my everything. Except that one little thing…. So, I know my only option is accept this is my life from here on
You should consider a strap on dildo, the size and width are your choice. He wears it and with a little imagination it can work just like the real thing.
Foreplay doesn’t start in the bedroom, foreplay is EVERY day regardless if sex is on the table or not. Foreplay isnt just in the bedroom before sex. Affection (hold hands, rub shoulders, tap butt, arm around shoulder, hugs, kisses, winks, that special look, etc), compliments, please, thank you, inside jokes, cheerleader, cleaning, cooking, repairs, child rearing, activities together, exercise together, etc… will go a long way to leading to sex again. People get lazy and just expect sex to happen because they’re married. People need to be kept warmed up all the time before things can get hot again, they need to feel wanted, appreciated and valued before they actually want sex and are in the mood for sex. Marriage is hard work, but worth every moment when the effort is reciprocated. Start by losing the weight, shaving the body, washing daily, put some effort into you’re own self and for Christ’s sake, clean up after yourself.
You are absolutely right, foreplay is an ongoing and wonderful thing, but for most women, after menopause, and the estrogen dries up, sex becomes too painful because of the dryness. I feel very blessed, because my gynecologist put me on low dose hormone therapy. It literally saved my marriage and maybe my life.
Yeah. Hormones. Got thru menopause with that help. Then, I got a highly aggressive, estrogen- fired breast cancer. Four years of treatment, a fried heart valve replacement due to radiation…. I am not the same, never will be. I only basically feel good enough to have pretty good days. If I push thru to be happy and have energy, he expects me to be like I was 20 years ago. I’m 65 and just want a happy, peaceful existence and I cope with EVERYTHING 100% , except sex. I love him and want to please him even if I feel nothing or just help him reach release. The thing that’s in the way the most for me ISN’T all the atrophy, the breast surgery, the continuing oral chemo therapy, the fatigue that I have…. IT’S HIS POUTING and “defeatist” attitude! If I’m doing the very best I can and feeling pretty good about things, IT’S NEVER ENOUGH. I don’t clean enough, cook enough, keep on top of appointments, follow his assignments “since you’re retired now, you can do” and I get assignments. If I go with my friend (who is also not 100% and we have the same pace, easy and slow) he ridicules me that I have energy to shop, walk her dog or just sit and chat over some tea…. I get “you have energy for everyone but me.” I have 2 nephews, age 6 & 7, from my brother 13 years younger than me. If I spend time or money on them, I get ridiculed. I see my friend for an outing about 2X/month. My nephews, 1x/month on average, so I don’t over do with outside the marriage things at all nor overspend, AT ALL. If he would quit his demands, realize I’m not who I was, be cheerful and easy, love life and just lighten up, I’d make sure he is sexually satisfied WAY MORE OFTEN. I just CANNOT do things he EXPECTS from me because of how that makes me feel, ESPECIALLY when it comes to intimacy. I am NEVER ENOUGH so why even bother? Then, let the pouting begin.
I am 60, and my husband is 65. We have been married 38 years, and we love each other very much. Our marriage became almost sexless in 2006 when our 17 year old son was killed in an accident. You both shatter into a million pieces, and when you emerge from the depths of pain for air, you find that though you are still in love with each other, nothing will ever be the same again. We had enjoyed a lovely sex life, with the usual speed bumps (kids, work,etc) but we never stopped. The night my son died was when my loss of interest began, in fact it vanished, period. We have had a lot of therapy through the years, but even after all this time I feel sexually numbed, completely disinterested and unable to respond.i still feel the need to be held by him and I love him so much, I felt so guilty. With a lot of talk and communication, we have made peace with our sex life. We still find a way a couple of times a month, but it took my husband a long time to not feel he was at fault. All I can say that my sexual desire was immediately and irreversibly shut off like a light switch. As for porn, I don’t mind it at all when he watches it (though he thinks I never see him), after all, we are all human and have drives and needs.
But wasn’t it lovely when we were young and lithe and our bodies would do anything we asked of them? Best to all.
I have suffered from sexual dysfunction ever since I started having sex at 15 back in the mid 1970’s. My functioning would be fine when engaging in sex with a woman for the first time, paid sex, and one night stands. However, whenever a relationship began getting serious my body would suddenly shut down- no erection, no ejaculation, no desire. When I was single it didn’t bother me I just figured I was easily bored sexually. It wasn’t until I got married at age 40 that I realized that my problem probably wasn’t sexual boredom but something else. Our marriage was sexless because I couldn’t perform so we started seeing various kinds of Therapists but after 5 years we had no luck. That was 20 years ago. I appreciate the fact my wife has accepted our sexless marriage but I wish I knew what was causing these awful dysfunctions that make sex impossible,
Oh my the first paragraph is me and my wife all over just had silver anniversary it’s been sexless since I was about 35 I’m 52 now she no longer initiates intimacy won’t kiss or cuddle hates being touched no toutching or anything of that disgusting behaviour treats sex as dirty and says I’m old enough to know better gave similar resolution said find someone else but canot as I’d be cheating I love her but this is not living promised change every year on Holliday well do it when we get away never happens maybee I am selfish for wanting intimacy with her but won’t talk about it were just stuck in a rut it’s a cave and were going nowhere I’m still fit keep trim and look young I have a young outlook whitch she hates but hey ho good luck all I feel less frustrated reading some of these comments xx
My husband who is 80 is 15 years older then me and has health problems so on a lot of meds our sex life finished 4 year ago going down hill gradually I get very upset as there seems to be no affection between us at all he seems quite happy living like this I love him dearly so would never leave him but it’s hard for me every day
Oh bullshit, a womans answer to wife problems is communicate how you feel to her. Wtf do you think he has been doing. He already said she feels bad for him so she is aware of the problem. I have the same problem and there isn’t a answer. So I cheat. If you think I’m going to live the rest of my life without sex your absolutely out of your mind. I love it communicate, tell her how you feel. Just shows how woman don’t know anything about other women. They think they do
Men expect women to get hormone therapy to fix the hormone problem. Those hormones can cause cancer. Cancer is pretty much a death sentence. So, basically you’re saying, “My needs outweigh your life.” “I don’t care if you die, so long as I get 3 minutes of pleasure.”
Hi Theresa, I might even know you, you sound just like someone I know. Does Thunderbird mean anything to you? You ever think about getting some on the side?
I am 55, my husband is 59. We haven’t had sex in months. We have not slept in the same room for years because of his snoring. I suppose that his stomach, which is huge, the fact that he can’t really get hard, and the fact that sex takes forever are some of the reasons why I no longer want to have sex. He retired a decade ago against my wishes. He sits around the house and watches tv all day long. He expects lunch and dinner to be made for him every day, He drinks beer by the gallon and he gives nothing to this marriage. He tries to manipulate me about everything and after 30 years of marriage I am over it. We had a normal sex life up till last year 3/4 times a week, but at Christmas, during the middle of the day, where our 2 daughters could have walked downstairs and seen him, I happened to come around the corner near his office to see him standing there watching porn and masturbating, after we just had sex that morning. He didn’t see me and since that day, my attitude towards him has changed. I could care less what he says or does. I would divorce him but what’s the point. Too much trouble.
I’m guessing because you are complaining that your 59 year old husband is fat, lazy, snores and is demanding is the reason you don’t have sex anymore? Are you a fit 55 year old woman with a high sex drive? Just aren’t attracted to him anymore? I’m in the same situation with my overweight, lazy, 48 year old wife. It’s been over three months since we’ve had sex. We’ve been married 27 years, sex
Is like 5 times a year.! I didn’t sign up for this garbage!
I agree 100%. I have been married for almost 30 years and except for 3 wonderful children our sex life has been hit and miss. My wife weight has ballooned once the kids were born (25 years ago) And she has never wanted to lose it but just accept it. Once menopause hit her desire for sex evaporated. She said that I can take care of myself in the shower and that is just fine with her. I can’t believe I will be in this misery for the remainder of my life and I am only 55. Hopefully I will die and be out of this misery
Hello Overit,
Seems like you do not really love your husband any more. Having sex will actually help you physically and can add years to your life.
I think it is true that having sex with your partner is part and parcel of the love you feel for each other… otherwise it just seems to fade. I’ve tried to convey this, but without success. I don’t know what to do!
Exactly! Same for me.
Lack of interest does not equate to lack of love. Back issues and menopause have completely removed my interest in sex. My other half sees it as rejection and makes angry threats. Why is a man’s focus so connected to his ability to use a woman’s body to empty the contents of his balls? How about just being happy with love and affection? What about the emotional security of being held while you sleep? What about the years of devotion? How about finding self-worth in volunteering at a homeless shelter or soup kitchen? How can a person be so shallow that they base their lifelong relationship on whether or not their wife can help them empty their balls? I’m throwing my partner out the door due to his rants and anger over lack of sex. He doesb’t accept the limitations of my back injury. Too bad; I truly live him but I don’t need the stress.
Are you serious? I’d be interested to find out your age. Men are very simple to please. Food, sleep, sex. A woman figures that out, she’ll be HAPPILY married! Most don’t ever have this figured out. Sex is a HUGE part of a marriage, are you kidding me? I say I know exactly what you’re taking about because my wife has had four back surgeries and we have sex RARELY! Right now I’m going on over three months since she’s wanted sex. It’s ridiculous. Woman think if they don’t want a penis inside them that that’s it, no sex. I haven’t had a BJ for about 20’years, my wife won’t even touch my penis so a HJ is out of the question too. Lame! I never signed up to be married and not getting sex.
Hello Hawkeye
Sorry about no sex demise. But many times women holds back based on how they are treated. It is more like a revenge. So maybe try treating he how you did when first met. goodluck!
I read these comments and feel for all of you, especially the men who I share with of which I have similar experiences.
My wife and me have been married 9 1/2 years and entered a phas of no sex about 6 months ago.
When we first met, we had sex 2X a day morning and night. Around year 3 it was 1x week and that lasted another 5 when it became about 1x a week. She would use the excuse of my children may interrupt, although I would point out we have a lock on the door. We have never had oral sex, partly because she informed me she had contracted fenital herpes from a prior relationship, but was under control. I was disgusted with the thought of my tongue in that region. She reached about 58 and went through late menopause which brought on vaginal dryness, solved with a doctor recommended lubricant.
Soon thereafter, she lost interest altogether and would reject me, citing we would schedule a weekend session which never occurred. I asked her to consult with her doctor about her sex desire and they may prescibe hormone therapy. She is a vegetarian and a purist in many ways, rejecting hormone therapy because of the published risks of breast cancer associated with hormone therapy, though small, my doctor stated. Each year for three years, she assured me she would seek help from a wholistic doctor, which never happened. She even went from sleeping naked in bed to full pajamas and on the rare occsion she would have sex to me, remove only her panties like a robot. I have a high libido and masterbate frequently, which I know she is aware of. The last time we had sex with lubrication, she complained of pain and suggested that beyond a few minutes, she was not interested. I told her that men my age generally took longer to orgasm and for sex to be mutually enjoyable, we both needed to have pleasure. Moving forward, the endless rejection led me to stop trying to initiate sex, because the repeated rejections is having an effect on my confidence and self esteem. I have noticed in the last two months that most forms of affection have dissapeared. She has become a roommate and a friend, but not a wife that gives me the joy and love we used to have. She is against the idea of therapy.
As a socialite in many women sponsored events, I believe her marriage status is important in her social circle than her marriage itself. The children I mention are my children from a prior marriage and I do 100% of everything for them without any help from her. I have joint custody with my ex. I am at my wits end. I am retired on social security, having spent my entire returment funds on an expensive divorce and a protracted hospital stay and heart and brain surgeries. I have a consulting business in devlopment now, because Social Security isn’t enough to save money. She has her own retail business, which cash flows, but has hasn’t turned a profit in the last 5 years. Our finances have never been merged and the only money between us has been my initial investment in her business. She is somewhat stressed by the reduction in lifestyle we have been reduced to, after years of six figure income for both of us. I am planning a divorce, as I won’t live out the remaining 20-30 years of my life without love and affection.
Hello David,
Sounds like case of no money no honey. Maybe when she met you she saw a very rich lifestyle that has not panned out. Sounds like you were already successful and that attracted her to you. But now living with you is not what she thought it would be and she closes shop on you. Sounds like you should try therapy.
I was disabled when she met me, so I’m it can’t be because of money. I completely recovered and had to start my own business to share in the household expenses. I own real estate property with my sister which provides some income. I retired early to get Medicare and redusece medical expenses. Our house is free and clear which is due to my earning a lot over 30 years and being conservative with money. She put in over $300K on our $1M house and I told her we may need to sell it when my youngest graduates high school. She isn’t enthusiastic about that idea. She has owned her own retail furniture store for 10 years and has expressed her desire to sell and get a job until retirement. My career came to a halt after my illness, due to a stigma related to my heart problems and brain surgery. Also, I have experienced ageism in the job market. I am now trying to get into health club manament and the barriers for that seem less difficult. My avocation has been fitness for over 50 years and I love the field. I can’t make the same wages I did before my illness, but added to my retirement money, it can get close.
I will probably need to work into my 70’s or as long as I am able. The health setback added to a divorce and two children to support has made life difficult.
Feeling loved and getting affection, including sex is important to me. I could do as well financially as a single person and there are women who would be happy with what I can provide, both financially and intimately. I want to have a joyful life not just be comfortably numb.
This whole situation sucks for all of us. I actually envy those that are single. What is the point of being married if there is no intimacy? We are just roommates. I need love that bad to hang on to a partner that never wants sex? There are many exceptions, but if you don’t want me let me go elsewhere. I have spoken to my wife several times. Some nice and some angry! Each time she claims to like having sex, but is just tired! She NEVER asks but will tell me I can have it whenever I want. Recently she will get naked and say I just want you to cum. Not sure what feels worse, not getting any or getting it with her just laying there. I work full time, do personal training after that, and run a business. I pay 90% of the bills, cook most of the meals, and clean (wash my own cloths). She won’t do therapy and I don’t want sex because someone forces her to. I’m leaving when I can stash away the cash. I have spent most of my life not being spoiled by anyone. I spoil her all the time. As a kid I grew up without Christmas or birthdays. I refuse to live out my life not feeling special.
After 8.5 years in my sexless marriage, I almost found the phrase “You’ve both gone so long without sex together” funny, though it is far from that. A year or two is nothing. I don’t mean to downgrade the pain someone feels with this, but there are levels to everything. Fundamentally, it comes down to 3 choices: leave, cheat, or suffer. If you love the person you will probably end up in the “suffer” category, unfortunately. My wife and I have been in couples therapy now for about 3 years, and while it has helped our relationship a lot, nothing going on sexually. This seems to be the one thing that cannot change (no medical conditions preventing sex). Since husbands are usually thought to be the problem regardless of whether the wife or the husband doesn’t want sex, I should say that I do my fair share (50%+) of house chores, am emotionally supportive of her, and a nice guy, but that is irrelevant. I have asked her why she makes dinner for us even though she hates doing it, and she says it’s because she loves me. (For the record, I would cook, but I’m terrible at it). Hmmm. She does something she HATES because she loves me, but can’t do something she supposedly ENJOYS for 8.5 years. Hmmm. I appear to have some value to her as a friend, roommate, handyman, gardner, earner, companion, but not in any intimate way. Is it so horrible for me to want to passionately kiss her if it doesn’t even lead to sex? Is it so horrible if I want to snuggle with her? We have talked and talked with and without therapist, but it’s just talk. Initially, it probably was mostly about the sex. Now, I just want to be wanted by her. Knowing I will never be wanted again in that way by her or any woman corrodes my spirit a little more each day. I have given up trying since the rejections and sometimes total indifference is devastating. There has to be more than just telling people they should talk about it.
Husbands (and I was one) are men who figured out too late that they are being played for fools. We were easy pickings since that biological clock was ticking louder and she still hadn’t landed Chad. As long as we had a steady job and didn’t look like Shrek, she’d settle for us. A little flirting, some sex, and she’d start pushing for a ring. Before the ink was dry on the marriage license, she’d already decided she was done being nice. You’d do things her way, when she wanted it, or else it’s divorce rape in the courts. If you didn’t leave before the first kid arrived, you were in for a life sentence.
Stay single, young men, Marriage is not for you.
I understand completely!!!! Super heart broken!!! It’s incredibly painful!!!! I do not understand why they got married in the first place!!! I want to divorce my husband!!! Feel like I have him a lifetime!!! No sex 7 years!!! I’ve moved on!!! Even if he can’t accept the divorce is coming!!! Very sad!!!
Would you expect your wife to attach as much emotional significance to cooking dinner as to making love? For many of us, male and female, the virtue of sex resides in the shared experience. It’s “dinner” cooked and eaten together, with enjoyment on both sides. Post-menopausal sex, for many women, is a meal offering little flavour or nutrition. To some it may even taste nasty.
Denied the enjoyment, should they be expected to put the same effort into the preparation? Should they chew the food and pretend it tastes wonderful? Should they swallow it just to make you feel good? It might be seen as an act of charity on the woman’s part, but is it really a healthy recipe for life?
It is equally open to the man to be charitable by eating alone. The man – in solitary pleasure – can flavour his immediate physical sensation with the remembrance of shared pleasures, whereas the woman – in giving but taking no pleasure in sex – finds her memories of shared pleasure to be sullied. This can be emotionally wounding for her, and the man too if he has empathy.
I chose the platter for one. My wife and I now both sleep with settled stomachs (and I don’t wake hungry in the night).
Resentment is destructive.
Thank you, Harry. I am a 58 year old woman. Loved sex–I mean with exuberance and joy. Then menopause dried it out and the muscles resist and joints spasm, so its painful. Never thought it would happen to me, but it has, plus some other medical problems that leave me exhausted. Trying to feel sexual and struggle through it and “pretend” is so hard, and brings me only sadness that I have to pretend after years of being honest. It is indeed like forcing down a tasteless meal for someone else’s sake. I am fine with him pleasuring himself and even using porn is fine. I like cuddling. He is a kind man and I love him. But he keeps wanting to “try” and “work on it” and cant seem to accept that I’m changing as I grow old. He’s changing too–isnt capable of long walks or hikes anymore, which is still something I love to do. So as partners age, sometimes we have to stop asking for what is too painful for them to give. That is love.
Maybe… have her read what you have posted here so she can see your pain all laid out with no interruptions like conversations can have when 2 people are both upset and talk at the same time. Maybe it will make a difference, good luck.
Keep it as quick as I can at 41 I had neck surgery, nothing below waist working very well, had penis pump install, went from 6 to 3 (maybe) tip flops around can’t penetrate vagina….she at time started Menopause and wasn’t really interested anyway
I Got tired of rejection and told her when she wanted to come find me she felt sorry for me and we tried sex toys and one was to big, hurt her but she tried but I could tell.
10 years of this and going on5 years since last try, don’t sleep in same be, snoring medical issues up down. So now a hug one a day (maybe) and pecks on lips when leaving house.
I miss the sex, but I miss even more holding her in my arms snuggling with her just touching her maybe copping a feel she sexy. I miss the simple things
But she works in a male-dominated field and loves to flirt this drives me bat shit crazy as I know I will never be there with her again.
Only 50 at wits end, I don’t want to start over, but I don’t want to go another 10 years like this either
I can’t talk to her about it be cause she has tried it didn’t work, but no physical contact and her liking other guys attention just makes it unbearable
Between the undesirable side effects of the meds I take for depression and the unfortunate consequences of menopause, my sex drive is just dead, and I neither care nor have any desire whatsoever to revive it. I do, however, feel like absolute shit about the negative impact on my husband who is six years younger than me and who has always had a high (higher than mine, anyway) sex drive. Quite frankly, I feel like he has been and is being cheated. So, here’s what I did—
1. I offered my husband a quick and easy as possible divorce. He (so far) said no.
2. I told him if he didn’t want a divorce, he should feel free to find date outside the marriage, and if anything serious developed, we would revisit the divorce option. He (so far) said no.
3. I told him we could stay married/faithful to each other without any type of sex/sexual contact. Ever again. He said he’d think about this.
We’re currently stuck at #3, but I have a feeling #1 is gaining ground and will ultimately prevail. And I’m okay with that.
Best of luck….
Dear PRK,
This sounds exactly like my situation although I am the husband. My wife has offered to let me move on, the problem is I love her and everything else about our relationship. I understand all the reasons she doesn’t want sex except one, if she actually loves me wouldn’t there be some effort? I’ve been accepting of her feelings and expectations. We have done counseling and it always comes back to my issues which I work on but have never seen any change from her. I feel I am supportive, helpful, etc but know I’m not perfect. My guess is she’s been trying to rid herself of me for many years but wants me to be the one to leave so she can save face with friends and family. I really just want to be wanted the way I want her, sexually or not, to just be valued as a committed, loving husband.
I’m 59, wife 63 and the big M has hit her like you have said it did you. My wife did not give me your three choices, but they are still there. I love my wife even if we have not had sex for close to 6 years. I don’t want and will not ever get a divorce. Someday I might take a sex vacation overseas. I promised her I wouldn’t embarrass her or shame her in front of family, friends, or church with an affair. Her 90-year-old mother lives with us, and I love her like my own mom.
I am a 64 year old woman who has lost all interest in sex. My 76 year old husband has not. When we were young, we had sex every single day. The frequency began to dwindle a few years back and now has been more than a year since we have had sex. My problem is my husband is still very much interested. He masterbates quite often and I have come home to find him watching porn on the couch and masterbating.
Now, for the past several months, we go to bed together and after I have fallen asleep, he starts masterbating and the shaking of the bed awakens me. When this happens I can not go back to sleep so my sleep is totally disrupted to the point of causing me to be unable to go about my day normally. I work part time at a day care and I find that when I haven’t gotten sleep the night before, my patience with the kids is really tested.
I don’t want to sleep in separate rooms or even separate beds. Am I doomed?
Hello Elle,
Just give him some and hopefully he will stop keeping you awake. Or make a deal with him, sounds very strong at 76.
If you love him why cant you help him be “happy” a few times a week I don’t get that part, it is just a little bit of your time and you could set all the rules or boundaries of what you are and are not willing to do.
Been there, done that. Tried all the hormones, the therapy, the talks, and yes, even the threats of stepping out if things don’t improve.
Let’s face it, as women age, many lose sex drive, along with experiencing a good number of other sexual problems. When it gone, it’s gone. She may give in from time to time to satisfy her man, but the drive is gone. What men want is for her to have some of that drive back. Men don’t want to force their wives into sex, nor do they want to beg for it.
We might as well bring up the time tested alternative. Someone on the side. Only you can decide if this is right for you. But we are kidding ourselves if we somehow justify a woman’s position requiring fidelity in a sexless marriage. That’s abusive and hurtful too.
Reading some of the commentary I can identify with the concerns.I fantasize frequently about past relationships and what might have been but I only become sadder. At 78 and after 47 years of marriage I kind of resigned myself to a sexless marriage.My rabbi was married over 55 years and said he had 4 good years sohe was not complaining.He also said over 90 percent of members of the congregation were miserable in their marriages.I guess he and I
Hello Dave,
Both men and women lose sex drives some times, but with proper nutrition and exercise etc it can be reclaimed. But the giving up on relationship and each other is what happens. If 2 people really love love,then they will find ways to please each other. If there is resentments in the home then it will not happen.
Dear Joan,
I am partly replying and partly commenting on the many very earnest and difficult sexless relationships discussed here.
There is one category which never seems to be covered in these kind of forums, that is where one partner is both medically unadvisable to have sex. Add to that some other longstanding unresolved low sex drive and relationship problems caused by their mate (me) in the past, and strict un_affectionate anti_sex parents in her upbringing.
We are 64 and 66 age, with my wife having a mitral valve replaced 30 years ago from childhood rheumatic fever and poor medical care, after our son was 6 years old. After my heart surgery 2 years ago for the same valve, we found the same surgeon who repaired it robotically and I was able to care for her pneumonia 2 weeks later and a year later heart failure, improved by a TAVR Aortic valve replacement last spring.
I was active outside a few times with permission, after 7 years of zero sex, and was not having problems engaging in it, but that had to stop when I tried to help a person I was seeing was caught. Even before this, she told me she does not want to nor have any desire for sex or intimacy with me or anyone. Furthermore the AFIB and some remaining heart failure issues make sex not safe to engage in, even if counseling could resolve our relationship issues from the past.
I still plan/need to continue working in a high tech job many hours a week, with excellent insurance, which is fortunate, and there is no way she can drive or work for several decades now. Put simply, she needs me as a caregiver and husband, as our son and 5 grand kids moved away for church school 2 years ago. We are happy for the days she has some energy and good enough oxygen levels.
I am very sexually frustrated and a different Danish upbringing with a healthy attitude. contrasts what my Wife and her 7 siblings and and an unstable Mother made her as the oldest have us take in 2 of her brothers early in our marriage. This put stress on things as did a lack of acceptance from my mother, to my Wife, until she died at 97.
So in summary, WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS IN THIS KIND OF SITUATION? For the months it was possible, I felt like a real man again, and much stronger at home and work. Now it is back to looking at every other couple as maybe having something unattainable for me and my Wife.
Married 36 years, neither of us had sex with anyone including each other until our wedding night: It was tough, but my choice. We had a fantastic time learning each other and how to do it together! I think because I really enjoyed masturbating from my semenarche to marriage, I brought in a healthy way of looking at sex. My wife says she’s convinced that my strong sex drive saved our marriage that got us through our in-laws, the deaths of 2 of our children, accidents, emergencies, seriou surgeries, any one of which could have destroyed us. But, here we are with 13 grandchildren from the strong marriages of our 9 surviving children.
My point is, most of the sexless marriage problems are from the man not ruling. I ruled our marriage & family and still do. During our engagement I made it crystal clear that my sex drive was high & she was the perfect woman to relieve it. Sure she was sore & tired particularly in the beginning, but she didn’t make it a habit to say no because she knew my hand was nothing like her body that I craved.
The man must rule by demanding to get what he wants. When he gets it, his wife & children are covered in security & abundance. And everyone under his authority flourishes. Not so in an egalitarian or woman-dominated ‘marriage’ where she gets what she wants that always ends in dysfunction & misery.
Will, I don’t see “ruling” the relationship and demanding that a wife “relieve” her husband, even if she’s sore or unwilling, as a solution to anything except an unhappy wife. I respect your right to your opinion, but to say that an egalitarian relationship “always ends in dysfunction & misery” is unfounded and far from true.
Will’s comment is more true than not (and certainly not “far from true”). See the New York Times story, “Does a More Equal Marriage Equal Less Sex?”
Marriage, at its core, is a compromise that trades each partner’s strengths to make both better off — but at a cost. Men provide protection, stability, and resources. Women provide fertility, nurturing, and resourcefulness. For men the cost is being far more productive than he’d need to be if caring only for himself and to forsake all other partners in pairing with his wife exclusively. For women it’s submitting to the protector of her choosing and bearing only his children.
It is an axiom of mate selection in nature that males display and females choose. Females are elevated to the superior status of the male they pair with — the reverse is not true — receive the protection and provisioning of that male, and enjoy the primary bond with the children. Should a wife forsake any of these advantages for the principle of equality?
Men empathize with women in a way that women do not with men; men *want* to make decisions that benefit women, individually and as a group (the “Women are Wonderful” effect, which both men and women exhibit). Men must risk themselves, including sacrificing their own lives if necessary, to protect the women and children in their care. This is how civilizations are built. But men also have 12-15 times more testosterone than women — far higher sex drives — and are capable of siring hundreds of times more children than women are capable of bearing. A husband must shoehorn that sex drive into the confines of marriage, where only his wife can accommodate it. Should a husband and wife have equal weight in decision making when the husband shoulders ultimate risk for the consequences? Must he provide her preferred amount of resources (which is much higher than he himself needs) while also accepting her preferred amount of sex (which is much lower than he himself needs) under the guise of equality?
You begin to see the problem. Equality sounds great in principle — people should be equal, right? But in practice, no one is equal. Because then who leads? Who sacrifices? Who risks? Whenever equality or egalitarianism gets discussed in the context of marriage, you can be sure this will involve benefits/advantages, whether natural or societal, that men have that ought to be shared equally with women and not benefits/advantages, whether natural or societal, that women have that ought to be shared equally with men.
Will: I was very disturbed to read your post. I am a man who has been married for 48 years and to read “The man must rule by demanding to get what he wants” suggests a serious mental illness. No human being should “dominate” another person. Love and mutual respect must be the basis for any human relationship.
He gets it!
Wow!!! You should be glad that your wife is still with you… your ass would have been out the door the first time you ever tried to tell me what to do… oh and by the way I’ve been married 20 years and my husband has NEVER told me what to do… we both have great paying jobs and are very independent… I have a Daddy and he stopped telling me what to do when I was 17.
Hello Will,
Demanding sex is not way to go, maybe we would like to hear her opinion. Maybe you are the only one getting pleased and that’s not fun. Sex should be mutually inclusive.
But, as we have read many time here, that it is OK for the woman/wife to force her husband into a sexless marriage. Talk about a double standard!
Will…sounds like you live in the stone ages…works for you….but most woman like a say in whether they would like to be touched or not. BTW…some in your wifes position build great insurmountable resentment.
I read this with interest. Masturbation in the case of a marriage where one party is no longer interested in having sex and actively resists any overtures along those lines would seem to be the logical course of action. But to then take into account the Catholic Church’s stance on that interjects another sticking point, if I may use that term. A person wants to, and intends to, stay faithful to their spouse in a sexless marriage “and” be a “good” Catholic at the same time is faced with, what seems to me, a no win situation.
Suggestions, thoughts, comments?
You’re describing my dilemma to a tee. I don’t know why I’m still here. She told me years ago that “we’ve had all the kids we’re going to have, what’s the point?”. As if I was only there as a sperm donor.
Doing that just causes me to be resentful of her, and the fact that I’m now reduced to doing this nasty little juvenile thing for myself. That feeling lasts for several days afterwards. Now I’m in my mid-50s, but have no problems whatsoever getting primed for sex. I can literally be ready with just a thought. She displays no interest at all and hasn’t for years. Haven’t had regular sex in years, just a HJ or BJ on 8 or 9 month intervals typically. I love her to death, but I’m sick of the constant rejection.
I’ll keep this short, but I could write a short novel. Married 50years and our sex life never really got going. We did have sex on occasion but we would go months in between, not my idea, finally he ‘stopped and said he had no more interest or ambition to have sex. He just didn’t want me and wanted to be left alone, in his world. He worked constantly on the mid night shift away from me. I had to fend for myself, and I could have done that before we were married.
I’m in my 70’s now and don’t care any more, he’s retired and works in his shop on cars mostly.
We are both in our Sixties now and have been married for over 35 years and apart for a few occasions, birthdays etc my wife just hasn’t been interested. I feel very bitter about it and although there have been compensations in our marriage- children and now grandchildren I have found her lack of interest difficult to cope with. I end up feeling bad about this as I think I should not be ‘obsessing’ about it as she often says. She basically views it as an immature fixation and that as a married man I should concentrate on more important things.
I have been a loyal affectionate hard working husband ( I would say that!) and I feel I have been cheated. Once the children appeared on the scene I would never have done anything that would risk us splitting up. And now we are old and the chance of my wife changing are now nil. We both have health issues
My advice would be to sort these problems out before the years pass and certainly before there are children as I think most men have a stronger sense of loyalty and decency than they are often given credit for and are willing to forgo what is a very primal need for the sake of a stable relationship.
Hi, Nice advice. I go through the details of your sexual life. Really it’s happening with many couples as the year goes and children born the interest goes down. But it should not stop like this as it hampering your life. So all should take care on this. Nowadays due to the requirement of Adult Men’s Sex Toys, different kind of online retailer store like Lovecubby available for a variety of high-quality sex toys for men & women that everyone can love. Hope now your problem will be solved.
My sexual desire just stopped. Nothing arouses it. Makes me happy I’m not married.
It’s all a crock. When they stop they stop. My husband stopped 25 years ago when he couldn’t get it up. I think it was a relief for him because he was not much into sex. I am sorry I stayed, but life, illness, dementia parents and a son kept me in this sexless marriage. Now it’s too late. Bitter? You bet. Take what you can, now.
Demetria,
I agree, once they stop there’s nothing that’s going to get them interested or willing to do it again. With my wife it was menopause. But I do like your advice, don’t waste time with them and take whatever you can get now. Life is way too short!
Demetria, so how old are you now? Just curious. I am 60 and my wife has zero interest in sex, was never real sexual, but after menopause, it is zero. I feel I am too old to move on by myself, most everything in our relationship is good, but sex is very bad.
My husband never had my love of sex. I haven’t found a way to replace that feeling of a man. I feel I’m too old to do anything to cause me to have to be alone. Isn’t it such a shame that Bob here, says he masturbates 3x a week and I’m sitting here daydreaming what it would feel like to have it again after years that my husband just can’t. I think if my husband was interested in sex, even if it is too small and limp now, he would at least try to help ease my throbbing desire. It’s like he just doesn’t think about it ever. Don’t men throb? Or when it doesn’t really get hard, does the throbbing stop also in men? It feels like torture just coming here and reading because it makes me want some so badly I don’t know what to do. My shower massagers has gotten me through years but it never will replace that hard feeling down inside me that I long for, yet believe now I will never feel again and I’m only in my 50s. And he wonders why I’m ill sometimes?? Seriously? I have a TON of frustration that has built up for years. I gotta stop coming here and reading this. It’s just torturing me for no reason
Now you know what many men deal with
My wife lost interest in sex years ago. She continued to have sex for a while but that eventually ended and we haven’t had sex now in over 5 years. She has absolutely no interest in it. I’ve tried everything I can think of but I’ve given up. The only thing I have now is masturbation about 3 times a week. She’s always saying how bad she feels about it but but never offers to do anything. I’m only 63 and I’ve pretty much just given up.
Bob, my wife is the same way, says she feels bad she has zero interest in sex, but doesn’t offer anything like oral or HJ either. I am free to masturbate without hiding it, just don’t ask for sex, ever.
Just find someone like you.
I have the same problem, my wife and I are 73 years old, 7’years ago she told me she no longer had an interest in sex, so,it has been 7 “dry” years, she told me I was free to,find someone to have sexy with!! I told her that I did not want that, That I only wanted her but she said she loves me but has no sexual feelings, it is slowly destroying me and I do not know what to do, she refuses to talk about it, will not spoon in bed and pulls away from any hug.
You are so right, I should leave but feel guilty, leaving over sex.
I sure want too.
I think that the advice to seek a trained sex therapist, and the encouragement to increase communication between this man and his wife is appropriate and excellent. But if neither of those possible remedies to the sexless marriage proves satisfactory, then perhaps the couple should agree to allow the husband to seek sex outside of the marriage. If done with the full knowledge of both partners, and always using safe sex, this would provide another solution to their dilemma.
At this stage, you may be right about getting help. For others that are on the borderline of this happening:
Suggest to her that she will have control of the situation. Choosing a date of the week for example, in which she will be the one to request it. For a woman, as she ages, she needs time to get into that sexual mindset and anticipation is a great aphrodisiac.
Scented coconut oil is a great way to give her a message. Dont worry about having sex for a long time. Quick and fast is also good. lol.
For wives wives too, yes?
Bonnie, thank you for commenting. Withholding sex as punishment is hostile — you deserve better. I suggest to you what I advised Frustrated — see a therapist right away. You’re right that it’s a huge, painful problem. Please ask your husband if he’ll see a counselor with you to save your marriage. If he won’t go, go on your own to express your feelings fully and evaluate whether you want to be in this marriage and, if so, what can be done to improve it. I urge you to seek help now.
– Joan
Hi
My husband has showed be very no closen in for years. I tried to think that it was OK, I still had company and friendship. I though it was my age, now I am 65 look OK, but not yong any more. But if he cared for me a hug would be nice. I finally asked him he said I was crab and mad all the time, I have a lot of pain and take a lot of meds sometime, and yes I am very unhappy with my life, but I try to hid it. He has with held sex before, once or twice when he was mad at me a couple of times in the past 18 year, that was my punishment. This is a huge problem, how can I live with someone who feels this way? Is there anything I can do. It makes me feel sick.
This is really excellent advice. Thank you Joan, for all you do.
Keep it as quick as I can at 41 I had neck surgery, nothing below waist working very well, had penis pump install, went from 6 to 3 (maybe) tip flops around can’t penetrate vagina….she at time started Menopause and wasn’t really interested anyway
I Got tired of rejection and told her when she wanted to come find me she felt sorry for me and we tried sex toys and one was to big, hurt her but she tried but I could tell.
10 years of this and going on5 years since last try, don’t sleep in same be, snoring medical issues up down. So now a hug one a day (maybe) and pecks on lips when leaving house.
I miss the sex, but I miss even more holding her in my arms snuggling with her just touching her maybe copping a feel she sexy. I miss the simple things
But she works in a male-dominated field and loves to flirt this drives me bat shit crazy as I know I will never be there with her again.
Only 50 at wits end, I don’t want to start over, but I don’t want to go another 10 years like this either
I can’t talk to her about it be cause she has tried it didn’t work, but no physical contact and her liking other guys attention just makes it unbearable
Run why stay? unless you feel he is better then nothing.
Usually it is the wife withholding.
EXACTLY!!! Every study I have ever seen says it’s over twice as likely for the woman to be the one withholding.
As the wife in the situation, please don’t consider it intentional withholding. I pray, I mean I literally pray, for the desire I once had for my husband. I love him and I want to be with him but I have zero desire. Menopause is not fun but this is the worst part of it. Sadly, the less desire I have, the less likely my husband is to even try. So my advice is to romance you wife and let things happen slowly and naturally. I know my husband masturbates, it’s okay, but I’d rather be his pleasure.
I have a similar problem but my situation is somewhat different as I am not on a lot of meds, and I am not unhappy with my life as an individual, but with my husband well, yes I kind of am unhappy with that aspect of my life. I honestly don’t know what happens to men as they age. Many claim that it’s women who become dis-
interested in sex as they grow older but I find that to be true of men as well – at least in the case of my husband! He is 69 (as am I) and we’ve been married 39 years and for him sex is a thing of the long past! He does not have ED or any similar issue, won’t see a therapist or talk about this, and he becomes angry and defensive if I bring up sex or hug him or show any affection. I wonder if it could be depression (something he wouldn’t admit to), but it’s been going on a long time.
He seems to think (as far as I can surmise) that sex is just a little bit dirty or should only be used for procreation purposes. At age 69, we’re certainly way beyond the procreation stage. I actually considered early in my marriage that my husband might lean toward being gay and that’s why he was somewhat uncomfortable having sex with me. Anyway, I think when one person in a marriage comes to the point my husband is at – and apparently yours is too – a therapist is really the only answer. Of course mine won’t go to a therapist no matter what so apparently the problem will persist. I think it is up to me to possibly leave my marriage because my husband is not about to change, discuss any issues, or ultimately have sex.
It’s a shame when a marriage reaches this point because so much of both people were invested in it at the beginning and for quite a while. It seems a waste in the end. Wish I could off you more of a solution but I think things either go on the way they are or there has to be come conclusion. If both parties don’t want to change things (and only one does) then unfortunately the situation is probably doomed.
I hear you sister, I am only 52, husband is same age. Sex was great and plentiful in beginning (we’ve been together 32yrs), but he has lost all interest and I haven’t had sex in years. I love him and still desire him (even though he lost his hair and gained a gut!!) I have tried everything too, to no avail, things only get worse, not better. I fear I will never know physically intimacy again in this marriage, I keep holding out hope, which is why I stay. And cheating isn’t an option either.
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