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Q: Loss of Attraction to Spouse
asked by: holding on on August 5th, 2006
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Please help our sex life is dead. At first she told me it was loss of libido so I delt with it for 3 years and felt sorry for both of us. Realy bad blowout last week about this and found out it's actualy that my wife has lost her desire for me. Other then this we have a great marriage with two kids. Both in love with eachother. What she says is that she still thinks i'm a good looking guy (i look the same as I did 7 years ago when we met). But she just dosen't see me in a sexual way. More like a friend. It realy hurts to hear that from her. I love and desire her more then anyone i'v ever met. Thats why I married her in the first place. Has anyone ever felt this way about a long term relatioship and if so is it fixable or is it just dead? The only oter thing after hours of talking about this with her is that she grew up without her father around and I wonder if now with two children she just feels like i'm a father figure or something like that?
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fox1lady replied on August 11th, 2006
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Take the children to the grandparents for the weekend, and rent the honeymoone suite at nice hotel, with some chapagne,candlelight , massage oil, and dress like a male stripper...Put on some music and let it rip..Felt like this with my husband and we had so much fun..He really get a kick out of the high heels..Not saying you put on some high heels..Lol..But there is alway more than one way to get the sex life back... :wink:
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BigMike replied on August 24th, 2006
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Fox1lady has good advice, probably won't help, but it might be fun trying.

I can relate to your problem. I've been married 20 years now and also have to kids (10 & 12) the wife used to have a healthy sex drive, but after "dropping the calves" the drive kinda went away. Some of it's probably because of depression, but she takes medication for it and it's still a huge problem.

I think we average about once a week, and I usualy hafta drag her upstairs.

Sometimes life just sucks (especialy when the wife doesn't! Lol )
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dramaqueen replied on August 24th, 2006
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Okay here's some advice from someone who's just very recently been there. I had felt the desire meeting a man at a friend's birthday party who paid me a lot of attention and made me feel extremely desirable. I didn't go through with an affair, but it concerned me that I felt that way. I am not saying this has happened with your wife at all, but I will soon get to my point and this was part of it. Your wife is telling the truth, but please try not to take it too personally or let it hurt you. If she didn't love you, she would've moved on and not talked about it with you. After this happened to me, I realized and told my husband that I still looked at him and knew that he was a very attractive man, my friends told me so, etc. But that I didn't feel the physical attraction anymore. It made it easier for me because my husband was also feeling this way. But we love each other and would do anything to save it. Whatever you do, do not consider swinging. This is the sad choice we made, and I got pregnant to another man and recently had an abortion. For a while before this happened, it did bring the fire back into our sex lives. Mostly because we saw each other as more sexual again. Sometimes, that is all it takes to get a woman revved up. Not the swinging part, but something that can make her feel sexy. For me at least it was this way. It is hard to feel sexy when you have kids and job or the house to care for and just all the demands of daily life. Maybe it isn't so much that she sees you as just the father figure but that she sees herself as just the mother figure and it translates into a lack of sexual desire for you.My advice to you would be if you could afford it, to treat her to a day at a spa, relaxing massage, nails done, pedicure, haircut and color. Let her get a little makeover. Then take her to a store, let her pick out a sexy outfit, and take her out to a romantic dinner. Be sure to tell her that it is because you realize she hasn't had a break lately, and been pampered. In no way let her think to herself that it is because you don't find her attractive, or it would backfire. I hope this makes her feel sexy and you have an amazing time!
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