Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Relationships

Mumsnet has not checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. If you need help urgently or expert advice, please see our domestic violence webguide and/or relationships webguide. Many Mumsnetters experiencing domestic abuse have found this thread helpful: Listen up, everybody

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

OP posts:
gaijinetal · 19/02/2021 13:37

*you'd take it

MusicWithRocksIn1t · 19/02/2021 13:39

I'm so sorry you have be in this situation but I'm glad you are taking steps to escape.

I'd start taking any paperwork you need or personal possessions of value (sentimental or otherwise) and get them to your mums ASAP.

Abusers do no simply admit defeat that easily. Be very very careful!

gaijinetal · 19/02/2021 13:40

Of course, if you said why should I stay and faithful if you cheated, he'd probably say you could have sex with another man .. as long as it was in a couple swinging situation. You can't win with someone like him.

Leave him to find a woman who swings and who wants sex 24 7. It'll be a long search but he deserves someone on his "wavelength" and you deserve someone on your (normal) wavelength.

Wanderlusto · 19/02/2021 13:47

Was just watching this. Seems relevant.

But do not watch it with him in earshot!

Bumpsadaisie · 19/02/2021 13:58

Please please please please please please - take your little boys and leave him.

There is no fixing this.

Before doing anything please seek advice from a solicitor or women's aid or CAB how best to preserve your rights. Eg might be best not to actually physically move out but to ask him to.

Please seek advice and please please please leave him.

Peanuts01 · 19/02/2021 14:02

@Wanderlusto thank you for sharing that. I dont know why its been so hard and taken this long for me to see all this

OP posts:
Bumpsadaisie · 19/02/2021 14:05

[quote Peanuts01]**@Wanderlusto* @Heartofgoldmumof2* he works full time but has a lot of outgoings. So when i leave he will be very short of money[/quote]
Good!!! I'm glad to hear it.

Bumpsadaisie · 19/02/2021 14:05

And please never ever have sex with him again.

Sunny4876 · 19/02/2021 14:06

Please leave him,his behaviour will only get worse and he'll affect your mental health more than he already has.

Fabiofatshaft · 19/02/2021 15:48

It will be the begging, pleading and crying next......

From him

gaijinetal · 19/02/2021 16:17

@Fabiofatshaft

It will be the begging, pleading and crying next......

From him

And possibly the suicide threats.

And maybe the "I'm going to get custody of the kids, you're an unfit mother etc"

I wouldn't let him have unsupervised access to your kids going forward.

QuentinWinters · 19/02/2021 16:17

I dont know why its been so hard and taken this long for me to see all this
Its cognitive dissonance, where you are faced with two incompatible views. In this case your belief that have a loving partner is not compatible with how he treats you regarding sex. A common way your brain deals with that is to deny one of the beliefs and because he probably wasn't abusive to start with, until you were committed to him, your brain has denied the abuse.
Its really common but also horrible when the scales fall from your eyes.

CatalinaCasesolver · 19/02/2021 16:30

Please leave him, he is abusing you horrifically. His obsession with sex and the way he treats you is not right, you must know this? Be strong, leave, you can do it.

slidingdrawers · 19/02/2021 17:01

@QuentinWinters

I dont know why its been so hard and taken this long for me to see all this Its cognitive dissonance, where you are faced with two incompatible views. In this case your belief that have a loving partner is not compatible with how he treats you regarding sex. A common way your brain deals with that is to deny one of the beliefs and because he probably wasn't abusive to start with, until you were committed to him, your brain has denied the abuse. Its really common but also horrible when the scales fall from your eyes.
This is such a valuable insight and I'm sure it will help others reading, as well as the OP.
isitsummertimeyet · 19/02/2021 17:21

from a guys perspective, he is a Nob,, get rid of him without 2nd questioning yourself, you should never be made to feel uncomfortable with sex, the the most intimate thing we can do as couples. He sounds only interested in himself..

Proper prick, get rid, plenty of guys would be happy to with you and not act like this, he sounds very immature

Peanuts01 · 19/02/2021 19:29

@QuentinWinters thank you, that makes a lot of sense. It explains all the doubt i have had, and why i had it. I will look into it more. Thank you again

OP posts:
Peanuts01 · 19/02/2021 19:30

@isitsummertimeyet thanks. Its reassuring to hear a mans perspective on it after him telling me all guys are like this

OP posts:
Peanuts01 · 19/02/2021 19:32

@CatalinaCasesolver thank you, i can see it now. I feel like sharing it here has made me believe what my gut was telling me all along. Before sharing it here i i would just mull it over and over in my head then talk my self out of it

OP posts:
Nanny0gg · 19/02/2021 20:06

[quote Peanuts01]@gaijinetal child maintenance is another problem, we were going to split up in 2019 and he wrote out a contract to say that i would not ask him for maintenence. He said he would pay for stuff for the kids like clothes etc. He has a child from a previous relationship and has always grudged paying his ex wife he even fiddled it so he payed less money[/quote]
The 'contract' isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Go to CMS and get every penny your children are entitled to

Nanny0gg · 19/02/2021 20:07

[quote Peanuts01]@isitsummertimeyet thanks. Its reassuring to hear a mans perspective on it after him telling me all guys are like this[/quote]
I know I don't know the ins and outs of everyone's personal life.

But I think I can safely say that I don't know any man like your boyfriend.

You and your children need to get away from him

PraiseTheSunshine · 19/02/2021 22:01

I'm sorry if this is blunt, but he is abusing you. I don't think this could ever get better for you and all I can say is LTB so that you can move on and live a happy life with your children. This isn't a loving relationship and I really hope you get the help you need.

Peanuts01 · 20/02/2021 14:47

@PraiseTheSunshine i can see it now thank you. opening up on here has helped massively

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page