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Body image, lack of sex + aspergers ?

35 replies

Veryconfusednow · 08/10/2020 10:50

Been seeing my boyfriend for a year. It started off great - always does, right?

In the beginning he was very affectionate and loving. Seemed to want the same things

He was clearly very attracted. Without wanting to sound arrogant, most men are and I find it annoying - the unwanted attention for how I look, rather than who I am. Bring on old age so I won’t have to deal with over excited men in the workplace or on the street Confused

Anyway I have mentioned this only because while my boyfriend was very clearly attracted, he wasn’t sure if he would find my body attractive. I was a size 10 with a tiny belly from bloating due to food intolerance and not going to the gym as regularly as I used to.

We had sex and everything seemed fine. He told me he loved me and things were going well.

When lockdown happened, he suddenly announced that he never found my body attractive, and he wanted to break up.

Shortly afterwards he said he didn’t know what he was doing. We made up, he reassured me he found me attractive and I said I would workout more, as I knew I put on some weight.

However we have had sex only a few times since then and he’s admitted to finding my face beautiful but can’t find my body attractive in the way it is.

I’m a size10-12 and my BMI is healthy. I could do with losing a tiny amount of weight and toning up though.

I can’t accept that I’m too fat or untoned for my bf to sleep with me and I refuse to have sex anyway.

He was a virgin until his 30s and admitted to only enjoying sex with one woman. He’s in his 40s now.

I suspect he has aspergers- so have other people in his family and ex gfs. I’ve also read many people with aspergers end up in sexless relationships.

He said not long ago that we need to acceptwe won’t have good sex in the near future, although we may do in the distant future. And that he loves me and wants to be with me. And we could procreate to have children.

Even if I develop the body he finds attractive, I’m not sure I can bring myself to have sex with him after this.

Has anyone experienced anything like this?

I’m just dreading having to start over again and meet someone new. Late 30s - it’s getting really tiring now and the dating apps are horrendous. Not many other ways of meeting men at the mo.

Maybe this is why it’s taking me so long to end a relationship that clearly isn’t working.

Or can it be salvaged in some way?

OP posts:
SBTLove · 08/10/2020 18:46

@Trinacham
It’s certainly not a disease, this outdated thinking is so ignorant and offensive.
@BubblyBarbara regularly posts her nasty ignorant opinions 😡

Trinacham · 08/10/2020 18:49

[quote SBTLove]@Trinacham
It’s certainly not a disease, this outdated thinking is so ignorant and offensive.
@BubblyBarbara regularly posts her nasty ignorant opinions 😡[/quote]
@SBTLove she's ignorant, as are so many. I must admit, I was before I met my husband. Although, I don't think I was ever stupid enough to think it was a disease!

BobbinThreadbare123 · 08/10/2020 18:55

I have ASD. It is not a disease. I don't even consider it to be a problem for me, in most respects. It certainly has naff all to do with a man being a twat about sex. Bin this eejit, OP. He isn't worthy or your time or attention.
It'd be nice to read a thread where someone is basically just acting like a dick without someone suggesting that person is autistic.

CodenameVillanelle · 08/10/2020 18:57

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StayClosePooky · 08/10/2020 19:15

Over the past 4 years my body has gone through massive changes - two babies, gallstones, an illness that made me lose a shed load of weight etc. I've put on loadsa weight, I've lost loadsa weight but DH has never once commented. When someone loves you they see through all the shite that comes with life. Sack him off, life's too short to be appeasing a man as vile as him. And start loving yourself too, you deserve so much better.

henrykissingher · 09/10/2020 03:19

ugh how can you be bothered with this? Run

anonnnnni · 09/10/2020 10:54

Take your size 10 body- that plenty of nice, caring thoughtful men would worship and adore- and make it run in the opposite direction of this nasty, verbally insulting lunatic.

PicsInRed · 09/10/2020 13:45

Did he use the word "procreate"?

🤮 🗑

RuffleCrow · 09/10/2020 13:50

Is he sure he's actually attracted to women at all? I can imagine being gay and having aspergers would be a very difficult combination.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 09/10/2020 19:30

He's gay. Or a sexual.

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