Re: i need advice bad
nocturnity wrote:. my wife and i's sex life has never been what you would call hot. even when dating it wasn't hot. so i knew early on that she had a low sex drive and i learned early on not to mention sex or make a pass at having sex with her a whole lot, because it made her think i just wanted sex all the time and thats all i want with her. so i try very hard to be careful with my urges.
Why did you marry her?
Seriously... if it's that big of a problem, and has been such a big problem, you have a lot of complicity in this. Imagine for a minute a post written by a woman, saying that she never liked sex, she knew her then-boyfriend liked sex a lot, and she just kinda hoped he would change after they got married. This imaginary poster would get all sorts of guff -- rightly -- for marrying him based on what she HOPED he would morph into rather than what he actually was.
Same here. This was a problem from very early on, you weren't conned into anything. You had an opportunity to say, "This won't work for me, I have a much higher sex drive than you" and see how she reacted to that -- and you didn't take it.
You can still do that now, of course. After you are already hugely frustrated, and after you have lost credibility by making her feel unsafe in her own bed. (As Jes says, that's bordering on -- or maybe even already is -- downright illegal.)
You obviously have to deal with this somehow. As always, I recommend professional counseling.