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I Live In a Sexless Marriage

Thankful For This Column

By: ExistsinHOPE
Written on January 12th, 2013
Here I am... rested fully, yet completely exhausted. Too many issues to deal with at once. However, I read your stories. Male and Female tales of the emptiness of being rejected. Days, months and even years of intimacy-less lives. I feel the support and friendship of you all. Strangely enough, I almost feel closer to you than the man I married nearly 24 yrs ago. It's open honest communication that builds relationships. Without it, we are merely strangers. With it, we are peers, able to empathize and support. 
I am thankful for you all. Thank you for sharing... This is life and we are all in it together.  Still exhausted... but I have faith I can win the battle. 
By: ExistsinHOPE
Age: 51-55 , Female
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    ulae
    ulae

    Welcome to the group we would love to quit. I cannot go what is commonly called home, deflate on the couch and say "I had a terrible day at work" because my wife has a comparable career, she never does that, and she thinks people that do are needy wimps and their parents did not bring them up tough enough. So what else do I have other than EP to call home?

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    hl42
    hl42

    Thank you.

    One thing that has helped me is to make it very easy for myself to succeed. It's not then exhausting, it no longer becomes a battle. You can choose, and have let go of the outcome - and outcome you can often not control in any case.

    And live.

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    boater12
    boater12

    Every time I log in and get the "welcome home" message - it does feel like home. Having people to relate to, read their stories and messages it does give hope. I've gone through much of my life thinking "it must be me". I realize that intimacy can become stale over the years but that is unfortunate. For me, it has been 13 years. Which I believe qualifies as "beyond unfortunate". In an obviously indirect way, I try to counsel my son on the importance of finding a woman that shares and enjoys a similar level of intimacy.

    That was something I took for granted when marrying. Sooo much to my regret. Life has its ups and downs, but being able to share the most intimate level of physical and emotional contact - well there is nothing like it.

    I assumed over the years our sexual imbalance would realign - I would become less interested. Unfortunately for me, that has not happened, if anything it has gone the other way. I actually found this site by researching the physical and "focus" issues and outcomes of a sexless life. There are days the frustrations are so high I can barely concentrate.

    Well, I could go on, but it is comforting to know that there are others like us. And the really sad thing is - there are an equal number of our counterparts out there. People that just don't get the absolute pleasure - physical and emotional of laying aside your partner after an intimate encounter.

    Sometimes I do lose hope, because I don't know how to communicate that since it seems so obvious and so basically human.

    I wish you the best.

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