3 years ago we found out our young daughter was being sexually abused by someone close to us. It was a horrendous trauma for all of us and we had a few sessions of counselling which were helpful. We were both repulsed by the idea of any sort of sexual contact though until about a year ago, but things have been fairly disastrous, and my DH has been unable to maintain an erection - I think he is still in a darker place than me ( I have had some very helpful individual psychotherapy recently, he hasn't).
We tried having a sexual relationship around his difficulties, but I find it difficult in that he won't acknowledge the problem, acts like there is none and then makes some excuse about the inability to maintain his erection. If he was honest I think I would feel supportive, but I need to feel safe and supported to reinstigate things, and I'm just left feeling confused. I think the issues are probably a mixture of trauma related and also that he has had several years of masturbating when we weren't having sex at all, and he has got used to the different sensation, but as he won't acknowledge it I don't know. Part of me wants to discuss things and try to fix it, but at the same time I'm still ambivalent about sex and intimacy - I think we both want the other one to fix things. Does anyone have any words of wisdom?
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Espresso2000 · 09/01/2013 18:40
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