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Question I am a 25 year old female and have been going out with my boyfriend who is 23, for three years now. It started off very passionate leading up to lots of sex. For the last year or so he is uninterested in sex. He looks at porn once in a while. I try to initiate sex but he will either ignore it or say he is too tired. When I try and talk about it he doesn't think it is a big deal,he is just too tired to do it. It has been a few months since any thing sexual has happened. He is a very loving partner and loves to cuddle every night. It just feels like we are 80 years old and have been married for 60 years. I am very sexually frustrated and don't know what to do next.
Answer it's continuing because you're allowing it to; without physical intimacy and sharing affection, you essentially have a friendship; his excuses are bogus, as it appears he has lost all interest in you sexually, most probably preferring masturbating to pornography, or seeing someone else; your choices are an unfulfilled life of quiet desperation, or INFORMING him that the current situation is no longer acceptable, and that his cooperation and honesty are now REQUIRED in finding the root of the problem and solving it; he needs to also know that unless a healthy, regular, intimate, passionate sex life can be achieved, you're out; right off the bat, all the porn needs to go; i'd also strongly recommend couples counseling, as something is very wrong here...
