Pages: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 |
grain trader
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 1/12/2010 4:19PM - in reply to someonestolemyname Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I kept track when i was first married. I put a penny in a bank for each time. First year i believe was 56 times. I always wanted more and she wanted less. In the first 9 years, the range was 32 for a low and 104 for a high. The 104 was the year after I caught her in bed with the neighbor--i think she was trying to make amends and i was trying to prove myself. I quit keeping track after 9 years. We divorced after 26 years. By the way, she didn't think it was cool to keep track. I thought it was something that would be fun to do together. Obviously we were not compatible in many ways.

Now i have a girlfriend, and together we thought it would be fun to keep track. The first 2 years were very close, 160 year one and 156 for year #2. It will be fun to see how this year turns out. My advice is to find someone you are very compatible with and like being with. I'm not talking only about sex, but truly like being with. The sex will happen if you both enjoy each other and are compatible sexually. And sex is important to some people and not to others. You better understand who and what their wants and needs are to be together for a lifetime and truly happy. It takes compatibility and enjoying each other to have a successful relationship.
someonestolemyname
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 1/12/2010 5:49PM - in reply to grain trader Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

grain trader wrote:
My advice is to find someone you are very compatible with and like being with. I'm not talking only about sex, but truly like being with. The sex will happen if you both enjoy each other and are compatible sexually.



i definitely agree with this statement.
From Moms Basement
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 1/13/2010 9:02PM - in reply to someonestolemyname Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
i just discovered this thread. Amazing advice.
2009
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 1/14/2010 12:50AM - in reply to From Moms Basement Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
227
getreal
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 1/14/2010 9:41AM - in reply to grain trader Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
just a couple of random thoughts from reading this

- so you were with someone you weren't compatible with for 26 years? Wow, do you feel at all that those years were wasted? That is a big chunk of life - that must be a huge regret.

- i gotta say, i think it is weird to keep track of sex, but that is just me. i got no problem if anyone feels the need to do that but i think it is strange - it isn't a basketball game, there is no score, it is sex


grain trader wrote:

I kept track when i was first married. I put a penny in a bank for each time. First year i believe was 56 times. I always wanted more and she wanted less. In the first 9 years, the range was 32 for a low and 104 for a high. The 104 was the year after I caught her in bed with the neighbor--i think she was trying to make amends and i was trying to prove myself. I quit keeping track after 9 years. We divorced after 26 years. By the way, she didn't think it was cool to keep track. I thought it was something that would be fun to do together. Obviously we were not compatible in many ways.

Now i have a girlfriend, and together we thought it would be fun to keep track. The first 2 years were very close, 160 year one and 156 for year #2. It will be fun to see how this year turns out. My advice is to find someone you are very compatible with and like being with. I'm not talking only about sex, but truly like being with. The sex will happen if you both enjoy each other and are compatible sexually. And sex is important to some people and not to others. You better understand who and what their wants and needs are to be together for a lifetime and truly happy. It takes compatibility and enjoying each other to have a successful relationship.
ResignedToMisery
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 1/14/2010 3:12PM - in reply to getreal Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I haven't looked at this thread in quite a while. I never counted the days before, but I think I am going to start. I am 0/13 this year so far, and fully expect to run it to 14 tonight.. It actually stretches back into 2009, but I'll just run the day count this year. It's bad enough knowing that 2009 was somewhere in the neighborhood of 8/365.
OVUL8
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 1/14/2010 3:15PM - in reply to ResignedToMisery Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
bump
grain trader
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 1/14/2010 3:29PM - in reply to getreal Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
When i caught her the second time with another guy, and we knew it was over, she said, "I don't love you and I never have". So yes, 26 years feels wasted, although I have 3 great boys that got to have a family--at least what 4 out of 5 of us thought was a family.

I agree, keeping track of sex can trivialize the act. But, if both parties are compatible with that, it can be a bonding, fun experience--my opinion. We are all different and look at things differently. And no, it is not a scoreboard as much as it is a way to remanicse(sp) about the year we had together (my definition). Obviously, this was not compatible with my ex, but neither was anything else when I finally found out I was living a Lie and naive/frustrated with trying to make the relationship work.
retard trap
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 1/14/2010 3:31PM - in reply to grain trader Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

grain trader wrote:

I kept track when i was first married. I put a penny in a bank for each time. First year i believe was 56 times. I always wanted more and she wanted less. In the first 9 years, the range was 32 for a low and 104 for a high. The 104 was the year after I caught her in bed with the neighbor--i think she was trying to make amends and i was trying to prove myself. I quit keeping track after 9 years. We divorced after 26 years. By the way, she didn't think it was cool to keep track. I thought it was something that would be fun to do together. Obviously we were not compatible in many ways.

Now i have a girlfriend, and together we thought it would be fun to keep track. The first 2 years were very close, 160 year one and 156 for year #2. It will be fun to see how this year turns out. My advice is to find someone you are very compatible with and like being with. I'm not talking only about sex, but truly like being with. The sex will happen if you both enjoy each other and are compatible sexually. And sex is important to some people and not to others. You better understand who and what their wants and needs are to be together for a lifetime and truly happy. It takes compatibility and enjoying each other to have a successful relationship.


First of all keeping track like that is pretty creepy especially since you were able to correlate it with her infidelity etc. At least you had the good sense to get divorced even if it took you 26 years. By the way for future reference if you only get laid once a week(56/365) in the first year you are married you should not be married.
ResignedToMisery
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 1/21/2010 9:52PM - in reply to retard trap Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
0/2010, woohoo. I might as well be a eunic
need data redux
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 2/22/2010 7:44PM - in reply to ResignedToMisery Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
How're you all doing in 2010?
INCLUDING you Ivy Leaguers. LOL.
ynzr
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 3/4/2010 8:34AM - in reply to need data redux Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
OK guys, I need some advice. My best friend got engaged after graduating from college last spring. He's been living with his finance ever since and the plan on getting married next winter. Recently he's been complaining a LOT about being shut off. Things were great before they got engaged and were good early into the engagement. Now, however, he sounds like a guy straight out of this thread. Having read this thread, I'm terrified for him...If things are this bad at 23, what the hell are they going to be like at 40 after a few kids? What would you guys tell him to do?
Just My 2 Cents
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 3/4/2010 8:43AM - in reply to ynzr Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
IMO, this is going to be a huge issue in his marriage. They need to get it straightened out now. If not, they're both going to be miserable, unless they both are happy with a non-sexual relationship.
Chic Harley...
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 3/4/2010 8:52AM - in reply to Just My 2 Cents Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
He has to take charge of the situation now somehow. This sounds similar to my mistake. Me and my future wife showed signs of having the same problem while we dated. After the initial f*ckfest like in all relationships, as committments furthered her desire for sex diminished. First it was living together, then engagement, then marriage, then a baby, then when you get shut off you're f*cked...except the exact opposite.

This has lead to major issues within our marriage. If she had tried this "cut-off" on me before we were married our relationship would not have lasted, but now I just can't go find another (I believe in the sanctity of marriage) so I have to figure out how to work it within the marriage, and I've tried EVERYTHING. I sincerely think he has to confront her about it, explain to her what part sex plays in a relationship in his mind and see if she's on board. Maybe even back off their relationship for awhile so she understands he's serious. If he doens't get ahold of this now, it will haunt him, mark my very frustrated words!
Classical conspirator
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 3/4/2010 9:54AM - in reply to ynzr Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

ynzr wrote:

He's been living with his finance ever since and the plan on getting married next winter.


Maybe if he didn't look upon her as a monetary thing, she might have different responses.
ynzr
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 3/4/2010 10:23AM - in reply to Classical conspirator Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
F***! You win.
ynzr
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 3/4/2010 11:57AM - in reply to Chic Harley... Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
So what does he do...just say, "Put out or I'm leaving"? It seems a little complicated especially since they live together thousands of miles from the closest friends and family (he's in the military).
wed for 20 years
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 3/4/2010 12:13PM - in reply to someonestolemyname Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Whats a BJ
modern warfare 2
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 3/4/2010 12:36PM - in reply to Chic Harley... Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Chic Harley... wrote: and I've tried EVERYTHING.


I finally tried an xbox. For me, it's immersive enough to not care.
Chic Harley...
RE: Post-nuptial shutoff 3/4/2010 12:47PM - in reply to ynzr Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
You see, it's already happening to him, they now live together, and he is isolated, she has little reason to satisfy him in bed. Now add marriage & baby to the below and he's in for a lifetime of frustration. I think he should talk to her about it, but the problem there is if you keep talking about it, it takes away the fun, and makes it feel like you're "making" her do it, that takes the fun out of it too, it's a vicious circle...


ynzr wrote:

So what does he do...just say, "Put out or I'm leaving"? It seems a little complicated especially since they live together thousands of miles from the closest friends and family (he's in the military).
Pages: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 |