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Feeling guilty about my engagement

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isthismylife88 · 20/04/2017 09:10

So I recently got engaged to my partner of 8 years we have two children and live a great life. He's very supportive in every way and we love Each-other very much. He's a great dad and our family means everything however there has always been intimacy issues which we have had many talks about and it has greatly improved over the years.

Unfortunately his sex drive isn't as high as mine. I feel like I need to be intimate to feel close to him. I try not to ask him for sex more than once a week and I regularly get left rejected which feels like a knife driven into my heart.
20 days ago he popped the question and I obviously said yes. We are both very happy to be engaged finally and I got my ring yesterday Grinbut after he rejected me 2 nights in a row. I was laid in bed and realised he's only been intimate with me once in the last 20 days since we have been engaged and he has also turned me down and rejected my advances on 3 occasions in this period of time.

I suddenly started to panic and realised I don't want to marry into this rejection, I want to feel desired and wanted by the man I love and want to spend the rest of my life with.

I don't want to give up what we have. Do I tell him? I don't want to break up with him though.
Do I just stay engaged and keep delaying the wedding but I know he will never want me as much as I want to be wanted.
Am I asking to much?
Do I want him more because he rejects me ( study's do show you want what you can't have?)
Should I accept the rejection and be thankful for what I have?

OP posts:
Huskylover1 · 24/04/2017 20:10

Zoflora You really, really need to leave your husband. You may have been married a long time, but that's no excuse. I left a 20 year relationship (17 yrs married). It can be done. Do it now, while you can and get back on that sex horse!

For the Op...it will get worse as he ages, not better....

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