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Advice please on sex

222 replies

Peanuts01 · 18/02/2021 09:25

Hi I have just joined here. I have been with my boyfriend 10 years, we have two boys 5 and 7. When we first go together I was 19 and we had sex all the time, he did tell me that he had a high sex drive and that he liked a lot of sex. But at the start we were doing it all the time I thought it's never going to change. But it did.
So there were ups and downs in the bedroom department until our first son Was born. I had a c section and wasn't interested in sex but after about a month he put pressure on, saying everyone else does it sooner and moaning about it. Do I gave in to shut him up.
Then after our second son again he pressured me. I had given birth naturally this time and had stitches. I was constipated and really not wanting sex. But he said that everyone does it a couple of weeks after and that we should. So I gave in again. I didn't enjoy it.
He has always wanted to have a mmf threesome, something I'm not up for. And started hinting at it and also suggesting swinging. He said it would make my sex drive come back. I told him it's not for me. Eventually he joined a swinging website.to show me couples. I said to him if he wants he can talk to people but not do anything. And he wasn't aloud to show them photos of my face.
Soon he was talking to a couple and he added Kik messenger on my phone so I could talk to them. I said no I'm not taking to them. He was annoyed and said it makes it look like he is lying to them he has a partner. After I bit of arguing he let slip that he had sent photos of me, my face. I was furious. But eventually he talked his way out of that.
A year passes and he starts telling me that he loves me, but isn't in love with me. So I sit and think. I'm selfish to expect him to live the rest of his life with out trying swinging. So I told him I would maybe try. Eventually we went to a club, it was aweful I didn't do anything just went for a look. So he said we will try another and went to a different one, it's expensive to get in and I felt I had to do something so he wouldn't be annoyed so we had sex together just us. We went back a second time and I thought he is going to be expecting more this time so we met a couple. I was in now way attracted to them. We went to a room and started having sex he wanted me to let the man be inside me so I let him. But it was horrific, I was dry and uncomfortable so I said stop, apologized and went to get my clothes. Then my boyfriend looked and me and said I'm not finished so I had to lay down again and wait for him to be done.
When we left he was so happy, and expressed how much he loved me.
That was the end of any swinging for me much to his annoyance.
Now I am stuck, we hardly have sex I never feel turned on.
He keeps telling me if I don't put out he will go elsewhere. During the Christmas holidays he told me if he knew he wasn't getting any he would of stayed at work.

I feel shit, I should want sex with him but I just can't do it. I told him how I feel and he says he doesn't want split up. On valentine's Day he spent the whole day ignoring me because he hadn't had any. He mutters things under his breath at me. He is always pointing out "fit women" on TV or if we go anywhere he makes it obvious he is looking at them.
Sometimes he will do some housework and expect sex in return for it.

Currently I feel so lost. I feel bad to leave him because we have kids and he says he loves me. I don't want to hurt them. I don't know if I am just over sensitive.

Please give me advice on what I should do

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QuentinWinters · 18/02/2021 11:31

What bilbo said. There is nothing wrong with you.

AryaStarkWolf · 18/02/2021 11:32

@Peanuts01

Im not sure how to comment back to people but it is real, i have left so much more out that has happened. I have told him in arguments that its wrong but he says this is what all relationships are like and that im too sensitive. Thank you for your comments. Im looking for a house now, i will keep you all posted on what happens
It is not what all relationships are like at all. Leave ffs, there is nothing salvageable about your relationship
goldielockdown2 · 18/02/2021 11:39

Fucking hell I feel sick and I'm not the one who has been put through the trauma and abuse you haveThanks

Lozzerbmc · 18/02/2021 12:04

Good to read your update you must follow through and leave before he abuses you further. You and boys will be happier. Dont tell him your plans otherwise he’ll persuade you to stay. You are not throwing away 10 years you’re giving yourself a chance of a good life. You only have one. Good luck

harknesswitch · 18/02/2021 12:11

My exh used to tell me I was abnormal and fridged, when I left him I found it wasn't me, I did like sex, just not with him. He was an abusive arsehole the same as yours in op.

LittleTiger007 · 18/02/2021 12:18

@ChancesWhatChances

Leave. Never go back. Do the freedom programme too.
This.

I’m so sorry OP. This is an abusive relationship, this is NOT love. You deserve better.
Get out. Get help. Get healed.
Then you can find real love and a happy life. It won’t be easy, but this man is draining the life out of you. Flowers

LittleTiger007 · 18/02/2021 12:20

It is not you. I’m glad you realise this now. Don’t let him gaslight you further.

picklemewalnuts · 18/02/2021 12:22

What a terrible story. I'm so sad this has happened to you, OP.

misskatamari · 18/02/2021 12:23

I'm so glad you are looking to leave. I'm so sorry you've lived with this for so long, with him gaslighting you and making you doubt yourself.

What an awful excuse for a human being he is.

Sending you strength, I know it won't be easy to leave. Don't feel like you're "throwing away ten years" though, you are finding freedom so you can be happy, not continuing to be in a relationship that makes you anything but

Milomonster · 18/02/2021 12:27

You are in an abusive relationship but don’t see it. I hope you seek help.

PinotPony · 18/02/2021 12:43

Christ, there's not many threads that make me feel like crying but this is one. I'm so sad and furious for you OP.

Please please get away from this man as soon as practically possible. Take your kids and run. Any man who puts his own sexual gratification ahead of your needs and wishes is simply vile.

This is not normal and I say that as someone in an open relationship who enjoys swinging. Nobody should be forced or coerced into having sex if they don't want to. I'm surprised the other people at the party didn't check that you were ok. Unforgivable.

Don't let him gaslight you. He's full of shit and will just continue to erode your self esteem. Be strong. Leave.

PaterPower · 18/02/2021 13:06

God, this guy has done a number on you. This is NOT normal behaviour. Not just the rape element - it’s all the other shit he’s pulled as well.

You say you were 19 when you met. Would I be wrong in guessing that he’s a fair bit older than you? Was he your first relationship?

Whatever the circumstances, I’m glad to see you’re going to leave him.

DinosaurDiana · 18/02/2021 13:07

Pack his bags and kick him out. He’s a sex pest.

Pebbledashery · 18/02/2021 13:10

Have more respect for yourself than this excuse of a man does for you. Make your arrangements and LEAVE.
It will not get better.. it will just get worse.

GoLightlyontheEarth · 18/02/2021 13:14

I’m wondering what made your vile partner think he’s an expert on relationships and what is ‘normal’. He sounds anything but normal. Please don’t listen to another word he says. Get out of there as soon as you can and don’t let him influence your kids either.

Peanuts01 · 18/02/2021 13:19

@PaterPower

God, this guy has done a number on you. This is NOT normal behaviour. Not just the rape element - it’s all the other shit he’s pulled as well.

You say you were 19 when you met. Would I be wrong in guessing that he’s a fair bit older than you? Was he your first relationship?

Whatever the circumstances, I’m glad to see you’re going to leave him.

@PaterPower yes he is 9 years older than me. This is my first and only relationship, whenever i have questioned anything he has talked me out of it or made me out to be the problem. But seeing what everyone is saying and its helping to make me see clearly
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PaterPower · 18/02/2021 13:29

9 years gap and no previous relationship... he’s a predatory dickhead.

I bet he didn’t encourage you to stay in contact with your friends either. As PP have pointed out, the Freedom Programme would be a good bet for you.

Newschapter · 18/02/2021 14:02

@Peanuts01

I hope you don't mind me asking, and you don't have to answer, but what kind of upbringing did you have?

Were you brought up to value yourself?

Do you still have contact with your parents/family?

Flibbitygibbit · 18/02/2021 14:13

Bloody hell LTB

Peanuts01 · 18/02/2021 14:14

@Newschapter i was brought up by my mum. Our dad was a paranoid schizophrenic who would beat her up i remember there being holes in the doors where he went to hit her and she moved. I didnt want to add that as i feel people might think i am making this up. I grew up a little bit uneasy around men, if i stayed at my friends houses and their dads were there i felt uncomfortable. When i went to high school i was worried about there being men teachers. I havent seen my dad for 20 years, he left when i was 5 and came back one day out of the blue when i as nine and wrote on the front door with marker pen to say he had been

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Mylittlepony374 · 18/02/2021 14:19

I'm so so sorry he is hurting you like this. As everyone has said it's not normal and you deserve so much more.

MoonlightMedicine · 18/02/2021 14:24

He sounds like a monster. You need to get away from him as soon as possible. I'm so sorry this has happened to you.

rainbowstardrops · 18/02/2021 14:25

I honestly, honestly hope this isn't true.

If it is, then you need to get out with your children.
This is abuse and it is not normal.

(Honestly hope this is a troll).

MizMoonshine · 18/02/2021 14:30

Please leave this horrible, horrible, man.

Peanuts01 · 18/02/2021 14:32

@rainbowstardrops no this is true, unfortunately it's been my life for 10 years

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