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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 9:24:34 GMT -5
Only my closest friends know the truth about my marriage. To everyone else my life looks perfect! We've been married for 12 yrs and dated for 4 yrs prior to getting married. I first noticed something was wrong on our honeymoon...I had to bring up the fact that we had been at the resort for 3 days and haven't had sex. I think he would have been fine with skipping it all together! For the first part of our marriage I was the one who mainly initiated sex. I'm a very touchy, feely, type of person. I would go up behind him and hug him, grab his ass, straddle him on the couch, whatever I could think of to get him in the mood. He'd almost never respond. He was always busy playing on the computer or watching tv. After about 5 years of this, I gave up. We would have sex a couple of times a year and that was it. I've asked him to see a dr about his lack of desire, but he says there's nothing wrong with him physically. I gues that's true because I found porn sites on his cell phones browser history. He was a nice guy when I met him, but has turned into an egotistical and very cruel man with age. He is good at his job and this doesn't help with his ego. His workers run around all day bowing down to his greatness and kissing his a** or so I think anyway. He travels quite a bit for work and at times doesn't call to check in and see if we are ok. I would expect him to do so since we are in a new city! He recently took a 4 hour work related road trip alone with a female coworker that he tried to hide from me. I found out that she was going with him through converstaion. He didn't bother to call me when he arrived like he usually does. I had to call him the next day to see if he was alive. Said he was too busy to call and by the time he got back to the room it was late and didn't want to wake me. So he couldn't text me during dinner before it was too late? Jerk. Here I am stuck in a new city with no friends and he is out partying with his workers & traveling around the world. Nice. He says he is faithful to me, he has never cheated and that I am over reacting. Maybe if he showed some interest in me I wouldn't act this way. I get hit on here and there so I know I am not that unattractive. I was at a gas station recently and a man walks up to my car and says in the most sexy sultry voice I've ever heard....I love your car. I look up and the face matched the voice! Very sexy, well dressed and good looking! He stood there and talked to me for a few minutes about his son who is in college, the area and things to do since I am new in town, etc. I am very shy so I didn't act on it and he left. He must have thought my shyness meant I wasn't interested. I was! I saw him a couple of days later while I was driving and he was getting out of his car. I stopped my car in the middle of the road and thought about parking and going to talk to him. But didn't ... not sure if it's because I am shy or think it's wrong because he is married too. Maybe it's because I have zero self confidence anymore. He has destroyed that with years of negative comments and a SM. I know I shouldn't believe his cruel comments, but after years of hearing it anyone would start to believe it. My old boss knows what a jerk he is and has promised to hire me back if I ever decide to leave. I worked for one of the best in my field! We had celebrity clients, big name sports players, politicians, etc came to us and he always made sure that those famous clients were given to me. No, I am not an escort but work in the medical field, lol. I made a lot of money and was one of the best in my field thanks to this man and all the time he spent training me. This bothered my husband. How could his wife be so successful? Well he took all that away from me. He now makes more than I ever could with my degree and is the bread winner. Just how he likes it. He's taken away my career, confidence and withholds sex. If I leave I know I wil be happy eventually, but I will give up an easy life financially. He is 5 yrs younger than me and working his way to the top of his company. No doubt he will run the show one day and make millions. Do I find someone on the side so that I can enjoy the financial benefits? I know a lot of women that do. They find happiness outside of the marriage because they don't want to leave for their kids sake or money. Life is so complicated! If he would just treat me with some kindness and respect this wouldn't even cross my mind, but I am done trying. I am tired of trying. It shouldn't be this hard to get him to be nice to me and sleep with me! Thanks for reading. Sorry it was long.
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Post by heartbroken55 on May 25, 2016 9:34:50 GMT -5
I'm so sorry. I'm in a similar emotional position to you and it's just so heartbreaking to feel like this. I wish you all the best, big hugs x
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Post by LITW on May 25, 2016 9:50:42 GMT -5
Wow that's horrible. He is definitely manipulating you, for whatever reason he has figured in his twisted mind. Heck, if my wife hugged me from behind, grabbed my ass, or straddled me on the couch I would be over the moon (she does none of those things), so something is seriously wrong with his thinking. Taking you away from a job you loved to an unfamiliar city and not offering you any emotional support is cruel at best. Wishing you the best!
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 10:15:22 GMT -5
He sees you as arm candy. Move on. He'd rather screw someone else.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 11:15:41 GMT -5
@anniec you didn't mention children, so I'm hoping you don't have any, because that would certainly complicate things, but get your resume updated and look for a place to live into. Call your old boss and go back to a career that sounds like it filled your soul. My heart is breaking for you, girl.
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Post by greatcoastal on May 25, 2016 11:29:59 GMT -5
@anniecsource you didn't mention children, so I'm hoping you don't have any, because that would certainly complicate things, but get your resume updated and look for a place to live into. Call your old boss and go back to a career that sounds like it filled your soul. My heart is breaking for you, girl. She mentioned a young son, in an earlier post. I think she is still learning how to post. I am looking forward to you fine people rallying to give her support, sounds like she needs it, and is in the right place!
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Post by bballgirl on May 25, 2016 12:13:45 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum and you are in the right place with good people to give you support. There are a lot of similarities in my story and yours from little sex during the honeymoon to porn and chatting on his cell phone. As far as your husband and his porn and business trips and whether he is cheating or isn't doesn't really matter. He's not intimate with you for whatever reason. In a marriage people either grow together or grow apart. My ex was intimacy averse sex once or twice a year. I was faithful for 21 plus years however he was not. Only one time I can prove it and that was our first year of marriage. I should have left him then. I chose to outsource the last year or so of our marriage, initially to see what was wrong with me and kharma has to exist because the only man I was ever with other than my husband was and is an amazing lover. There were a lot of other issues wrong with my marriage not just sex so I needed to divorce. If the marriage was good bar the sex I may have stayed and cheated. You need to figure out what will make you happy in life and go after it. Outsourcing was just something I needed to do and try. I felt zero guilt because I was no longer in love with my husband which he caused. You get out of life what you put into it and he put zero into our relationship and I deserved better. As far as your husband saying he doesn't cheat, maybe yes maybe no. If my ex would have accused me I would have lied if he didn't have proof. I recommend you talk to an attorney to get educated.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 12:25:27 GMT -5
The younger husband that's just "Hitting his Stride" as a financial/business rock star, browsing porn, etc., screams cheating to me.
But the earlier marriage sexlessness -- three days at a resort during the honeymoon -- is confusing. This may be a special brand of shithook.
I'll be following this one closely.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 12:31:57 GMT -5
BTW @anniec, Everyone looks perfect on Facebook.
I should get an account and put all my problems on it along with pictures of my old busted stuff and me when I'm filthy or injured.
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Post by greatcoastal on May 25, 2016 14:36:16 GMT -5
You mentioned egotistical and cruel, above and beyond the lack of sex. Sounds like marriage will always remain at the bottom of his list.
Time to go on line, and go get as much " free" council with attorneys as you can. He is so rapped in him self he will be non the wiser.
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Post by wewbwb on May 25, 2016 15:58:36 GMT -5
@anniec Welcome to place no one wants to be. But strangely I for one enjoy being here. All has already been said, so I'll just say hello. You're not alone.
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Post by unmatched on May 25, 2016 17:00:15 GMT -5
Hi @anniec and welcome. It sounds like you are very aware that there are lots of things wrong with your marriage apart from just the sex (which sounds like it was never very good). And you don't seem to be saying, 'I really love my husband and I just want to fix our marriage and be back to loved-up bliss again.'
So I guess you are weighing up whether to leave your marriage and try to find a whole life where you can love and be intimate with a new husband but might be less well off, versus staying in the marriage for potentially a much better lifestyle, and then trying to deal with all the shit that goes with it. And if you go for the second choice you may or may not need to find some happiness outside the marriage by cheating. Tricky choices, and you also need to weigh up what the costs are to your kids in either lifestyle (and don't doubt that there are advantages and disadvantages for them in both). You won't find a lot of judgement here whatever you decide, and however long it takes you get there. Keep posting what you are thinking and feeling and hopefully the right course for you will start to become clear. Good luck!
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 17:29:17 GMT -5
Thanks everyone for all the advice and support. It's nice to be able to be open and honest about how I feel without being judged! And like I told another member on this site, it's real honest and at times harsh advice that I need-- and not advice from a girlfriend who will just tell me what I want to hear or what she thinks I want to hear.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 17:35:34 GMT -5
Thanks everyone for all the advice and support. It's nice to be able to be open and honest about how I feel without being judged! And like I told another member on this site, it's real honest and at times harsh advice that I need-- and not advice from a girlfriend who will just tell me what I want to hear or what she thinks I want to hear. Curious. What are the girlfriends saying? Come back home?
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2016 18:08:41 GMT -5
Thanks everyone for all the advice and support. It's nice to be able to be open and honest about how I feel without being judged! And like I told another member on this site, it's real honest and at times harsh advice that I need-- and not advice from a girlfriend who will just tell me what I want to hear or what she thinks I want to hear. Curious. What are the girlfriends saying? Come back home? Definitely try to talk to your female friends about this. However, be aware that they might not understand. That happened to me - my girlfriends all have husbands who want it all the time. That was a cruel bit of irony for me. But - at least try talking to them. Your friends can be your best allies, even if they don't understand. I will just say this: your H is a rat-bastard and a dick. Yes, I said it. And - welcome to the group - although I'm sorry anybody needs to be here.
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