jd
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Post by jd on Sept 26, 2016 4:06:18 GMT -5
I am new here and just learned about ILIASM today from an online article. I am looking specifically for insight and others that have dealt with SM for one or both of these reasons: 1.) husband has very low T and sleep apnea 2.) child with medical issues The above have caused chronic stress, financial crises, and a lonely 16-year marriage full of hurt, neglect and anger. I look forward to reading your replies. Thanks, JD
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Post by baza on Sept 26, 2016 4:18:17 GMT -5
Welcome Sister jd. I'm sure you will get some replies specific to your post in respect to low T, sleep apnea, child with medical issues, chronic stress, financial crises, and a lonely 16-year marriage full of hurt, neglect and anger. Various members will have specific knowledge in regard to some of these issues. - Sometimes you can get a whole lot of value from just reading voraciously in here, picking up bits here bits there. It is unlikely (though not impossible) that another member is going to have the exact same circumstances as you and be able to handle all the areas you have mentioned. - However, just about ALL members are all too familiar with the "marriage full of hurt, neglect and anger" situation. - Welcome again, dive in would be my initial suggestion for you.
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Post by bballgirl on Sept 26, 2016 7:06:51 GMT -5
Welcome and I'm sorry you have found yourself here but you will get the support you need.
My ex had sleep apnea and that should not effect sex drive however he was also overweight, diabetic, high blood pressure and on meds that effected his libido I'm sure. I offered to exercise with him he refused, drank sugary soda which I did not bring into the house. So while I tried to help him, he did not want to help himself nor did he want sex with me. He was a lazy man. Eventually I gave up, lost attraction for him, fell out of love and had to leave the marriage.
If you still love him and are attracted to him I recommend you wake him up and lay your cards on the table because if he doesn't change the future isn't pretty.
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Post by Dan on Sept 26, 2016 8:16:15 GMT -5
jd : glad you found us; sorry to hear that you are struggling with an SM like the rest of us. My household is similar yet my wife is the low-libido one: I have sleep apnea (fortunately it is well-treated with CPAP therapy); we have an adult son struggling with bi-polar issues; occasional periods of financial worries; four kids (ages 24 to 15) all still at home; my wife stresses about her low-stress job. She has used all these things as "justification" for her low-libido. I tried to work with it for -- oh -- decades. We are clinically sexless for about seven years; zero marital relations in the past 15 months. Here's the bad news there is no magic recipe to get your H back to wanting sex. The ingredients would be: - your husband becomes willing to work on his health issues (apnea, low-T, and probably weight and blood pressure) - your husband becomes willing to have frank and giving conversations about the future of your marital sex life - you become willing to let go of the resentment you have built up in 16 years Alas, given your brief story, that sounds like collecting ALL those ingredient will be rather difficult. Here's the main way this forum (and its predecessor) have helped me: - I've come to shed the guilt about wanting sex from my wife; it should be obvious, but I needed the support of ILIASM to fully embrace "a normal, healthy sex life is a reasonable expectation in a marriage". - There is dang little I can do to change my wife. The best I can do is be clear what I want: first to myself, THEN in measured doses with my W. She has to want to change to make the marriage work. - Or, well, I can change, and give up on a sex life in my marriage. In which case, there are three basic options: 1) Continue in a celibate marriage 2) Stay, but find sexual companionship outside the marriage 3) Leave the marriage Sorry if this all sounds "too blunt". I'm not trying to be discouraging. Personally, me being here has lifted me UP from the discouraged state I was in... and slowly replacing it with the determination and courage I need to take the next steps. I'm curious to know your reaction, though. Reading all that: does that confirm what you maybe already knew deep down?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2016 14:39:19 GMT -5
sex is a very delicate thing and often the first to suffer when stress hits a marriage.
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