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The intimate part of my relationship is messing with my head

Discussion in 'LGBT Later in Life' started by paris, Jun 13, 2014.

  1. paris

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    I want to apologize in advance because I may be rambling and not make much sense.
    I'm a person who likes to know things but I just have so many questions and no answers, and it makes me nervous. I just don't get it, you know. If I reread some of my old posts I'd read that I more or less don't mind sex with my boyfriend but when I compare it to how I feel about it now I don't understand how much it could changed over the span of not even a year. How's that even possible?
    He was away for a few days and when we met yesterday he was soft and loving and touchy and wanted to do it but I had this "ugh, the weather's so hot, I don't wanna get even more sweaty" kind of thought. I did it though, and surprisingly climaxed but felt almost guilty about it afterwards, like I don't deserve it because I'm such a bad girlfriend who doesn't enjoy sex with her boyfriend and stuff.
    I don't know if I'm sexually attracted to him or if I ever was. I recognize if I'm sexually attracted to new people but with him I'm not so sure. I definitely fell in love with his personality first. After I realized that I love him I became eager to sleep with him and really curious about it and, even though my first was like "I dunno what all the fuss is about", I spent many years wanting to have sex with him even though it wasn't giving me the sexual release.
    It seems like the momentum just stopped for some reason. I don't know if it's because I somewhat fell out of love with him (I still care about him a lot though), or because I feel I'd rather be with a woman. I just keep over analyzing and over thinking everything he does and everything I do when we are together and it gets exhausting. I fear that I wake up tomorrow and realize that I "lost the ability to sleep with him completely". I feel like I'm gay but on the other hand I feel like I need some more confirmation, preferably a real experience with a woman to be really sure. Ugh.
    I decided to write him a letter because I'd be probably not able to speak about it but not before my exam is over. But I feel so not ready to discuss that with him.
    Haha, I just realized there's no real question in my post... :rolle:
     
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    It makes total sense to me. When my wife and I first got together, it was new and exciting and I didn't have any problem getting charged up enough to have sex with her. But over time I became kind of indifferent toward it, and if she initiated it, I'd respond (more physically than emotionally, but I did respond). But I gradually stopped initiating it myself, in part because I wasn't all that terribly interested, and in part because although it felt good, I just didn't feel that I got much out of it.

    I even made a new year's resolution one year to try and be more affectionate with her, and spent every night for 6 straight weeks trying to get things going, and when she just didn't much respond, I actually felt relieved. (And true to form, as soon as I stopped trying, within a week she started in on the whole "you never touch me!" spiel!)

    The closer I came to accepting that I was gay, the less interest I had in sex with her, and now I don't think I could physically respond to her if I wanted to. (And being as how I'm out to her, she won't be calling my bluff either!) Sounds like you are probably moving in that direction yourself?
     
  3. LostMyself

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    Makes sense to me too.I feel like I should be having sex because I don't give him that pleasure and I end up convincing myself that I need to for relief even saying that makes me feel like a user but I know that's why he does it too.When I say I want sex I actually dread it and I will fight that voice in my head and just lay it down to maybe I'm lazy I need that extra push.I tend to avoid anything to do with touching,kissing or hugging but still find myself saying I need these things even though I can even make myself desire it.Makes no sense why I think that.After we do do it I'm riddled with the feeling that it's wrong and sometimes I cry or I cry during an orgasm.Im now taking the approach to listen to my body and take my time to just wait and see deep down I feel like it won't pass and I need to just come out with what is really going on.I think it's the part of acceptance once we acknowledge how we are feeling and say hey it's okay to feel this way the guilt starts to disappear.I imagine life with a woman and wonder if I will to have same feeling god I really hope not cause then I'm really be stuck lol
     
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    Thanks, guys.
    @Choirboy I think you're right. It really seems that the more I'm accepting myself the less interest in sex with him I have. To tell the truth, I try to avoid it the best I can. The worst are the thoughts I have while doing it. When I think about it I haven't had straight fantasies for a decade, before I acknowledged that being gay is an option I'd had no fantasies at all, since then it's just women.

    @LostMyself I read your last post and I also have certain things that I feel really uncomfortable about but the truth is that I think about them as rules. Haha. I really don't fancy when he's touching me down there for example. I always bear 10 seconds tops, then start doing something to him instead so as a result I seem to be a perfect sex craving girlfriend. Funny thing is that I'm really good at pleasuring him but I myself don't get much out of it.
     
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    Aww I'm sorry you feel like that!!! I echo choir boys wise words... Been there done that, I too had moments in our ten year marriage where I said, 'right, I'm gonna make an effect, I'm going to have sex with her tonight tomorrow and the day after..' But whilst I was physically connected I wasn't emotionally. I was off in my 'happy place...'
     
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    I've had the same experience as the other posters. You want to make your opposite-sex partner happy, but you are not truly present. It took me a long time to acknowledge this, and longer to act on it.
    Wishing you luck, Paris!
     
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    Thank you, guys. Yes, that's exactly how I feel. I want to make him happy, and not to make him suspicious that something's been going on because I'm not ready to talk about it yet. Physically it's just a routine, a mechanical thing, mentally I'm not truly present. I have that inner dialogue that I should enjoy it and how I'm gonna enjoy it but it always turns out to be just a wishful thinking.
    I thought that I accepted myself already but I still catch myself bargaining from time to time. Like if I hooked up with a few women I'd be able to let off some steam and get back to "normal", you know. I know it's stupid, even funny how the mind is playing me. I know I'm gay but I don't know I'm gay at the same time if you know what I mean. I think that not accepting myself fully is holding me back from telling him right away. :eusa_doh:
     
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    I can so relate to this post. For years I've thought I was one of those people who don't like sex. But I think the penny has finally dropped. I've avoided bedroom activity with my husband when i can for the past few years, 'giving in' when I felt I had to to avoid an argument but wishing it was over before it began. Now we haven't been intimate in 6 months, he's not asking why so I don't know if he's came to his own conclusion or if he even has the right conclusion. I'm not ready to discuss the real reason with him yet and I too don't want to hurt him. I'm still coming to terms with things myself. I don't know how long this can go on without something being said but I can't bear the thought of having to give in again to keep the peace.
     
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    I had the same problem, except I had no idea that I was a lesbian. I avoided him, made promises to myself to take more of an initiative, came up with every excuse I could think of. Once I realized that I was attracted to women and not men, it was much more difficult to participate in anything intimate, even kissing him. I don't know how I couldn't have known looking back, and I do become upset with myself sometimes that I didn't know when it was so obvious, however, that's in the past, I know now, and no more sex with men!
     
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    Oh, I'm hearing all of you, in one way or another.Sigh :icon_wink

    And Paris, I certainly do know what you mean :slight_smile:

    Wishing you all the best
    (*hug*)
     
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    This is my first time on here. So glad I joined. I am not feeling so alone. All of your voices make me feel stronger. All these questions and feelings...they are real and other people are facing them too. Maybe just maybe I will make it. Thanks for sharing.
     
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    @stella99 @HTBO @Sig @DancingGirl It helps a lot to know that I'm not alone in this. I also read your other posts/comments and found them inspiring. Thank you, girls (*hug*)

    Since I've realized that I was attracted to women my desire to be with one grew in a way that's almost overwhelming sometimes. There are days when I feel like a ticking time-bomb, ready to blow. I try to stay away from alcohol, especially in a tempting environment, because I worry I'd do something stupid. Not that I didn't. *sigh*
    A few months ago I even did a "research" (=watched lots of male gay porn) on how to pleasure a man better in order to learn some new "tricks" and "moves" I could use on my bf. It's probably ridiculous but I really felt like I need to compensate somehow for my lack of real enjoyment and the feeling of guilt. Moreover, I was thinking if I'm better I can make him cum faster so it gets over with in more short time. But the truth is that whatever I do the constant thinking and feeling of guilt is still present.
    I know what I need to do, what the real lasting solution is but... :confused:
     
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    It makes perfect sense. But it's the truth that this happens to straight couples too. Maybe you simply "fell out of love" with him.

    ---------- Post added 19th Jun 2014 at 02:31 PM ----------

    ^I am not trying to question your orientation with that.
     
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    I think that's part of the reason too, the last years I love him more or less "only" as a best friend, and me having feelings for a girl and discovering my sexuality was probably just an accelerator to the whole process. The sex with him was never spontaneous for me, I never fancied certain activities and being touched at certain places, but I was so much in love and willing to do anything. Looking back, I fell for him in some kind of a demisexual way, I didn't have a crush on him and it took me years for the feelings to develop.