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A little advise please!!

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SoThisIs43 · 23/08/2022 01:11

So I've been with my partner almost 4 years. I'm 45 he's 48. I'm divorced 10 years after a long relationship 3 kids and one 4 year serious relationship that ended badly. He's never married and been around the block a few times so to speak. When we met it was instant chemistry...no holding back from day one and sex was very good. Very varied and I lost the sexual hang ups I'd had for a long time. This all kind of fizzled out quite quickly due to shift work, my older kids living here and general life...to the point now that it's almost non existent when I say its been 3 or 4 times this year is not an exaggeration. Its a huge issue for me and I miss it and I miss the intimacy. Its affected my confidence massively and its become this elephant in the room. I've brought it up many times. He gets defensive and then that makes matters worse. He has performance issues and just buries his head thinking it will go away. This has come to a head this week. We've come to the make or break point where I've said it's needs dealing with. We still are very affectionate fancy each other alot and want things to work but there had been this wall built because of the intimacy issue. SO as a kind of very surprising attempt by him He's suggested sat night we watch porn get some toys out bottle of wine and see what happens. This has kind of taken me by surprise...its like going from nothing to 100. I'm up for it I just am scared ill be anxious and tense and won't know how to react etc. Porn doesn't bother me I've watched it before but never with a partner as part of sex. Help needed on how to take this in my stride please 🙏

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lostincumbria · 23/08/2022 07:22

That does seem a bit like trying to run a marathon before you can do Couch to 5k. Maybe try building up to the porn with a sexy movie first?

I do worry that he's setting himself up to fail by planning a big bang rather than all the advice in this sort of situation, which is go slow, low expect, take PiV off the table etc.

I'd be suspicious of him secretly taking Viagra and using it to 'prove' nothings wrong. Nothing wrong with the drugs if course, he just needs to be straight with you.

Whatliesbeneath707 · 23/08/2022 07:23

My random thoughts:
Which part is bothering you? Is it that you've not had sex frequently & this suggestion for the weekend has surprised you?
Are you worried that this is the only option for correcting the issue?
Do you have any deep/hidden concerns about porn? Were you brought up to feel it was wrong? Sex shaming & thinking porn is wrong is a script that lots of us grew up with (I'm a similar age to you). Is this bothering you?

I very often recommend following these two people on Instagram:
hello Jenny Keane or her website is: www.jennykeane.com/holisticsexeducation

The Sex Doctor (Dr Karen Gurney) on Insta but her website is here: thehavelockclinic.com/free-resources-to-improve-your-sex-life/

Both talk about expectations around sex & how we've programmed ourselves to expect orgasms as the measure of success & yet does it always have to be that? Jenny Keane often talks about the joys of a soft penis & how to deal with a lack of erections. Jenny has some really popular online workshops that both men & women can attend (everyone keeps their clothes on, including Jenny).
Maybe changing the expectations & having the difficult conversation with your man might take some of the pressure off around performance. Explain that you can be intimate without it having to result in PIV sex, but you can still enjoy sex & each other. Taking PIV out of the equation sometimes works & instead being close/giving each other massages etc can help.
I would be inclined to have the above discussion before you started watching the film, so that your man knows how you feel & that it's more about closeness & intimacy, rather than the performance/PIV sex with an orgasm being the measure of whether it's been successful.

Good luck @SoThisIs43 , let us know how it goes.

HowlongWillThisTakeNow · 23/08/2022 10:36

That does seem a bit like trying to run a marathon before you can do Couch to 5k. Maybe try building up to the porn with a sexy movie first?

100% this, maybe a few drinks and something a bit less full on to get the “juices flowing “ so to speak

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