Name changed for obvious reasons.
My partner and I have been together for 20+ years. We have two kids, one with SEN. My partner is the main breadwinner. We aren’t married because I have never been keen.
We generally get on well, share the same values and interests. He is very considerate and generally supportive. Though we do bicker. We don’t get to spend much quality time together.
Sex is becoming a massive issue. He wants it, I really don’t enjoy it. I could quite happily not have sex again. But, he is not unreasonable in his expectations. We have settled on once every few weeks. But I am finding it really difficult. Having sex doesn’t feel right for me. I am essentially ‘lying back and thinking of England’.
I don’t know what we can do about it, everything else is pretty good, but we are just totally mismatched in this area. I feel it would be devastating to our children for us to split up. I’m not even sure whether this would be possible financially, as we live in an expensive part of the UK.
I just don’t know what to do. I can’t envisage my partner ever being willing leave the family home. But at the same time, I just have a real block on sex, which I don’t think I can come back from. There’s just no sexual desire there for me and there probably hasn’t been for a long time.
Any ideas? Anyone been or going through similar?