I Live In a Sexless Marriage Stories of Experiences

I don't know how many times I have wanted to write this out, but felt "what's the point" as it is sickly similar to everyone else's.
Been married for almost 23 years. Known her for an additional 5.
We have three kids all in their teens...

I got a job!!!!!!!!!!!! Heard back today, start in a couple weeks, pay is..... not as bad as elsewhere.. not great but certainly livable. I am so entirely and completely relieved!

I've also secured daycare spots for the dear little...

There is this paramedic broad who dropped her duly wedded husband for openly screwing up a strumpet in one dingy niteclub once they had gone out together.

She coined this maxim that all men are dogs and went further to prove her point...

Most of us have somehow spent many years carrying a picture in our minds of a time in our marriages when things were much better the sex was good and things were pretty good. We froze that snapshot and carried it around with us in our...

I just wanted to share that in some cases, ladies, (I know, all men are different) there is hope.

I had begun to feel there was no chance of revival and that I was either going to have to deal with loneliness and misery forever, or...

Learning about Narcissism really opened my eyes to my situation. I grew up with a Narcissist Father (severe childhood trauma) then spent the last 21 years with my Narc wife. I really noticed how similar their behaviors are (obsessed...

This may be more for the "jaded marriage" set, but I thought it was interesting. I thought it might also be of interest to those women who are newly out, since, as we all know too well, a SM will totally trash your self-esteem.

"How...

What follows is a comment by Brother De12 some months ago.
I urged him to post it as a story, but he never did. I hope you don't mind me so doing Brother D
It is his overview of the leave option."Ok, what happens when you decide to bail...

Found this article on the web...

Treating Depression with the Oxytocin, the Love Hormone
By TRACI PEDERSEN Associate News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on February 20, 2012

When a person hugs or affectionately touches...

If it wasn't fair EP then I think I would have ran back to the lions den! So, I am a BBW and to boot, I am not short, my ex Rob, was everything I have always desired in a man! Hard working, courteous, funny, handsome, 6'5 Greek god, his...

So my last post said at the end of my rope, well I reached that several years ago. No I have just tied it around my neck and hung myself out to dry.
BUT... I want to say, it is not the SEX thing although have not had that for over a...

I'm still here. After posting on this subject for nearly a year, maybe even more, I'm still here. I haven't taken the time to write. Heck, other than my therapist, I've not even talked about what's going on inside me. It's so much...

All thing same. I am meeting my man again. (This week!!!!!) Guilt is catching up with me. Actually no one needs to hold you to anything. Not even my husband. He pretends not to know what I am up to. But I know he knows and I wonder how...

Earlier this evening, I told my husband that I want out of our marriage of 33 years. Maybe I'm in shock...maybe it will hit me later...but I don't feel the profound sense of sadness I thought I would at finally--after 11 tortuous years...

Where are the success stories? Hasn't anyone stuck it out and overcame?

When we decided it was okay to be "Friends" I promised that if things got better for her at home I would back off and let it happen. I've been backed off for several months now.I try to be a good guy at home too but it doesn't seem to...

Okay, so I know this isn't really the appropriate forum for this, but people are always talking about outsourcing here, so here goes.
We'd exchanged quite a few emails over a period of a week, and decided to get together.
I asked where...

A very long time ago I had a serious relationship with my hs/college sweetheart. We were truly in love. The sex was amazing. He drank and regardless of how much passionate love we had for one another, life is complicated and passionate...

I found this place in 2011 and wrote my first story. It was like so many. She never initiates, she turns me down frequently, yadda yadda, the hurt and rejection. Then I wrote one in 2012 about finally having the talk with my wife and...

I have been officially relagated to the "once a weeek, only in the morning....when I say so" catagory for some time now.
Tonight I was told that I need to compromise....and that the was no longer interested in even weekly sex.

It...