Before I get into a long-winded response, I've done some reading on the internet. Apparently there is something called "SleepSex" or SBS. It covers a whole range of sexual activity from masturbation to actually having sex with your partner. It's like sleepwalking in that the person doing it is physically active but they are asleep or have no awareness of what they are doing and they have no memory of it afterwards.
I'm giving my wife the benefit of the doubt. I guess she isn't aware she's masturbating because she's sleep-rubbing. Bad joke.
@MotherOfHighSpiritedOnes
Thanks for the feedback. My wife is slightly sexually dominant and we've been together for eight years. She has no issue telling me what she wants or how she wants me to do what I'm doing differently, (Sometimes its annoying but I can live with it) she refuses to fake it and usually climaxes twice when we do it. Once before sex and then again afterwards, usually with me operating the vibrator. Sometimes (rarely) she can't and she jsut says so and we stop.
The part that makes me angry (but I'll get over now that I know about SBS) is that she was turning me down on a regular basis and we were only doing it once every-other-month-ish. She said she just has no drive. This continual rejection, of course, has emotional repercussions for me... started feeling like she doesn't want me and I'm unattractive and so on (this has been going on for a couple of years). I've talked to her about it a couple of times to no avail.
And then I find out she's masturbating with the vibe weekly... and then she starts masturbating almost nightly! Worst, she knows the rejection is getting me down because we've talked about it... and she's masturbating right next to me after telling me she is too tired for sex. It's like throwing it in my face. I don't want to tonight, sorry dear. 15min later, "Ooooh, mmmm..." I mean I could let that go if it were once in a while, but with 5 weeks of rejection behind you, it really hurts.
The link in my head becomes, "Bull, you don't have any drive! You really DON'T want me sexually". If it isn't SBS, the "No drive" really IS BS. she's getting off at least 4x per week (that I know about).
I'm also very open with sexuality... it REALLY bothers me that she is using the vibrator weekly. It bothered me that she was playing with herself almost daily. Actually the fact that she's doing it doesn't bother me half as much as the fact that she's hiding them from me. If you don't want to have sex with me, just be honest about it and we'll work something out. Or just tell me so I can deal with it and move on!
It really sucks having her say, "No really, I AM attracted to you, I just have no drive." Then that night she turns me down and 15min later is getting herself off.
On the whole, men do it, my situation is as follows:
I prefer sex with my wife over masturbation. When we are doing it frequently I don't masturbate at all. Yeah, I do it when she's away. Yeah, I do it when "its been a while". I don't masturbate when she's home and I certainly don't do it with her sleeping next to me in bed. Further, if I did and she called me on it, I would admit it. I wouldn't try and tell her, "no honey, I wasn't doing that!"
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For some reason I can't get any flow in this response. I've re-written it twice now. Oh well. I hope this doesn't come off as an attack on you, MotherOfHighSpiritedOnes. I'm just trying to explain where the emotions are coming from.