How often do women pull the plug on sex after tying the knot?
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Just curious, because I am not married and don't have close personal relationships with a whole lot of married men to be able to ask this of them: how common is it that a women, for one reason or another, becomes much less sexual after the wedding and refuses to have sex with her husband more often than, say, once per week? From my point of view, once per week doesn't even sound that bad, but I suppose if you started the relationship fucking every day, and then suddenly it drops down to once per week, I can see how that would be alarming. Is this really that common or is it much more the exception than the rule?
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Lol.
Since the divorce I'm trying to make up for lost time by hitting the strip clubs. :)
While sex frequency declines as we age, the reasons are myriad - lack of desire, familiarity/lack of variety, changing hormones, changing bodies, etc. in my case my wife had a full hysterectomy at age 38 and lost all desire. Hormone replacement was fraught with danger at the time so she "put up with it" for awhile, but it wasn't worth the effort.
I'll admit to being less than a stellar lover except when highly motivated and trust me, at age 72 a young hotbody provides motivation.
We were together for 11 years total (married for 7), the first six years were pretty good. the next three it was hit or miss and and the last two pretty much non-existent. Despite the fact I wasn't happy about the lack of sex and dealing with someone with bi-polar disorder who is not properly medicated is hard ... real hard. Through all of this, I did not cheat and I did not ask for the divorce. She did.
I think much of it depends on the couples love and dedication for one another. In my opinion, if you marry thinking you'll get sex regularly, don't get married. There has to be more to the relationship than sex to get married.
This is why I won't get married again, it's not just about the sex for me. It is actually pretty low on the totem pole. I think if everything else is there sex happens organically. I just enjoy having the freedom to do whatever I want.
I talk to friends and they have to "check in with the boss" to do something. I don't have this issue.