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Why do I refuse intimacy with my sexy girlfriend?

 

Linda Answers:

See A Sex Therapist

Well, I'm no sex therapist, and I do think it might be worthwhile for you to visit one. You feel it's a problem, it recurs, and it bothers you (and your girlfriend), so it's worth investing a little money. At worst, you'll have more stuff to enrich your masturbatory life. At best.

My Two Cents' Worth

That said, here's some free advice - worth every penny.

Y'know, if you were a woman writing what you did, the standard comments would be things like this:

"maybe you're too tired, after working all day, being busy the way you are, to get excited about sex so much anymore. It's hard to find the interest when all you want to do is go to sleep at night."

Another piece of advice you'd get is:

"Gee, maybe your partner doesn't excite you any more. Maybe sex is just the same ol' boring stuff, and that's why you are more interested in other outlets than your partner - you want something new and exciting."

Get Imaginative

I think that the same advice applies to guys as well as women. Take a look at how you schedule your life - is there really room in it for you to take the time and to have the energy to get excited about sex? If not, see about ways to make room.

One way to use someone else's imagination is to share the porn.

Talk to your girlfriend about trying new things that you both would find enjoyable; use your (or someone else's) imagination.

Buddy, Here's A News Flash

All this is what a sex therapist, or psychologist, or McCall's magazine would tell you. But buddy, here's a news flash that most people won't talk about out loud. It's just not the American way.

Porn-Fueled Fantasy

Ready? Here it is. Maybe you expect too much. How many real life people have real great, passionate super-charged sex lives after several years together? Or any sex lives??!! I personally know several long-term married, committed people who haven't had sex in years. The ones you hear about who write in to Ann Landers because they're still making passionate love at age 80 after 55 years of wedded bliss? They're in the news because they're so unusual. And the sex lives you see in movies and imagine in your porn-fueled fantasies? More fantasy than reality, I bet.

What Are You Griping About?

Let me see...you're griping because you love your girlfriend, she loves you, the two of you communicate well, enjoy each other's company, you feel you have enough sex but oh, she wants sex more than you do... jeez! Do you realize how good you've got it? Help your girlfriend see all that you do have, instead of concentrating on the one little thing that's not perfect. Your glass is way more than half full. Drink up.

And if you don't like this point, quit writing in for free advice and see a professional!

Good luck.

-- Linda

 

 

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