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Not sure i fancy my dp anymore, is it just a bad patch???

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Ballyxxx · 06/05/2011 14:16

Hi,

Dp and i have been together for 8 years. We have two kids and live together.

The last while ive been feeling like i dont fancy him anymore. its hard to explain..like i still think hes good looking but i just dont have that sexual urge for him anymore...i feel quite sad saying it out straight because i do love him. we have a great relationship in many ways. he still makes me laugh out loud, we have great communication skills, if something is bothering us we always speak about it and clear the air, we would never let things build up..we rarely fight seriously, we will bicker sometimes but doesnt everyone do that?

It all kind of kicked off when i fell pregnant with ds1 and it just never really came back!! Ds1 is 2.5 now...

I hate saying this on here but i dont want to speak to my friends about it..but when he kisses me i just get the urge to pull away or he'll try it on and ill cringe a bit..I want to fancy him so bad but i just cant get it back..

He knows something is up because before i was pregnant we would have had sex if not every night, every second night and i would initiate it aswell as him. I know he is feeling self concious and often says openly that i dont fancy him anymore. its horrible..

I dont know if were just going through a bad patch or maybe it stems from the times i was pregnant when i didnt want to do it but felt i had to endure it for him (not that he made me but i felt bad not doing it)...HELP ME!!

OP posts:
JeffTracy · 06/05/2011 15:57

How old is DC2?

Not that unusual if you have v young DCs so my answer would be a tentative "yes" (bearing in mind I know know any more about you than you have told us!). Hope things get better soon...

Ballyxxx · 06/05/2011 20:42

Thanks Jeff, Ds2 is 18 months...

YEah maybe im worrying about nothing..

OP posts:
iwouldgoouttonight · 07/05/2011 20:56

Hi, I've just posted a very similar thing - me and my DP have been together for 8 years and have two small children too! I don't really have any advice because I have the same problem. But I'm hoping that it is connected to having young children and maybe it is a common feeling and we can get through it.

FabbyChic · 07/05/2011 21:03

I posted on the other thread, for me an my husband I just fell out of everything and he bored the pants off of me, we divorced.

IhateMarlo · 08/05/2011 01:03

I would love to say that I know what you mean but despite trying A LOT OH and I have no children, don?t worry this isn?t going to be a Oh you?re so lucky stop whinging answer.

When we were actively trying sex was a chore, something that had to be done, it wasn?t even sordid, just became like the washing up.
No emotion, no love, definitely no lust.

We tried for 4-5 years, 4-5 years of mechanics.
We then decided to take a break and for a while it was is this a take a break from trying or take a break from us?

I think due to mutual depression we stayed together for the following year, totally sexless.
I cared for Oh but the thought of him being sexually attractive was [vom], and since talking honestly he has admitted to feeling the same.

And then one day I noticed that actually he was quite, well, cute and that bum was rather nice.
And as the overdose of hormones, seriously it took well over a year for them to, start to leave my system and then I started to remember what we liked about each other and from there.
[so if I go by my system you will still have serious amounts of hormones floating around and have had for that last 3+ years. Not giving this as an excuse just a reason, biologically you are supposed to not want sex while pregnant, post birth, breast feeding nature wants you to raise that next generation and get it up and running before you conceive the next.]

So in my very unknowledgeable opinion, you still have massive amounts of hormones floating around, I?m guessing lack of sleep and all the stresses that go with have 2 DC under 3, by the sounds of it you still love him??? Do you?

I think that if you do love each other that you have to fight through this.
I?m not saying lye back and think of England etc, but talk to him.
Tell him how you feel, be it un-attracted to him, not interested in sex, angry due to ?enduring? sex earlier, [though this one worries me, did you feel forced? If so maybe there are other issues here]

From what you have said it sounds like you have a good relationship
?i do love him. we have a great relationship in many ways. he still makes me laugh out loud, we have great communication skills, if something is bothering us we always speak about it and clear the air, we would never let things build up..we rarely fight seriously, we will bicker sometimes but doesnt everyone do that??
Maybe it is just something you need to talk about??
Maybe he needs to hear that it isn't him, and once he reads that he'll back off a bit.

PS: OH and I have now been together for over 17 years, some years of bonking like mad bunnies some as celibate as the local convent. . .

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