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Why Women Won't Have Sex With Their Husbands

Posted: 02/28/2012 5:20 pm

Reading Charlie Capen's 'Why Won't My Wife Have Sex With Me' made me think about the number of men out there, lost in the newdadnosleepnosexlife.

Childbirth changes a marriage. It's not just about a new baby's presence, but the toll it takes on your body. Sure you can feed your child with formula, leave him in a daycare center, and use the cry it out method, but what if you want to practice full time breastfeeding and attachment parenting, like me?

The first few weeks I survived by telling myself to take one day at a time, and keep it simple. Sex was out of the window, long gone to a different continent by then. My husband and I decided to wait at least a whole month to give it a try. I appreciated his patience in giving me time to heal, and feel closer to normal again.

Those first weeks were intense. I felt like an island, and no matter how much my family helped, the novelty of the baby wore off and I was on my own. Being at home all day, covered in baby poo, baby puke and baby pee can make the most confident woman feel as sexy as a pile of dirt. Some days I was so out of it I forgot to brush my teeth, or didn't have time to take a shower until my husband came back from work. I couldn't fathom why on Earth my husband wanted me. My body changed, and my self esteem dropped with my saggy skin.

Two months into maternity, my husband took the baby for six hours (I started to pump milk by then), and bought me a wonderful Spa Day. I felt beautiful and charming, so it paid off (for that day). For the past month, things have started to pick up. He has learned (through talk and arguing and more talk and arguing) that helping out with the house chores, taking the baby for a while so I can nap and other little things are more arousing than parading naked in front of me.

Waving your cute butt in front of your wife will not do anything for your sex life. Doing the dishes, the laundry and putting the baby to sleep... Now that will raise more than an eyebrow or two.

 

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Reading Charlie Capen's 'Why Won't My Wife Have Sex With Me' made me think about the number of men out there, lost in the newdadnosleepnosexlife. Childbirth changes a marriage. It's not just about a ...
Reading Charlie Capen's 'Why Won't My Wife Have Sex With Me' made me think about the number of men out there, lost in the newdadnosleepnosexlife. Childbirth changes a marriage. It's not just about a ...
 
 
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Gregg DeMammos
Relationship Coach/Founder, The Relationship Circl
12:17 PM on 04/19/2012
21st Century Man agrees! We're right there with you, Limari!

A piece written by a man on what you get out of "doing the dishes"- http://www.yourtango.com/experts/21st-century-man/do-dishes
05:43 PM on 03/06/2012
Another reason for people not to sign a marriage certificate. Women get too comfortable when married and offer less sex to their partners. Guys, don't sign that marriage certificate, and watch that your partner and you will have a great sex life.
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Jondrea Smith
untied dog in a dogmatic society
02:03 PM on 03/02/2012
To the author: Wouldn't you look for a mate with indicators that he would do those things BEFORE you made babies with him?
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Limari Colon
07:46 PM on 03/03/2012
True. What if he used to do these things and now doesn't?
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jf12
When I saw her I marveled greatly.
12:38 AM on 03/04/2012
Read your title. What if *she* used to do things that she now won't?
11:59 AM on 03/04/2012
Without actually asking "him"... there could be a number of possible reasons: Just lazy; grew tired/fed-up with being told he wasn't doing it right/how you would do it no matter how hard he tried; spouse is now a full-time housewife and feels more of the household duties should fall to her; feels taken advantage of; feels that doing more around the house to help out, so his wife would have more energy at the end of the day for him (as she claimed), was nothing more than a "carrot" forever dangled just out of reach.
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AnneDublin
Today is tomorrow, We worried about yesterday.
09:46 AM on 03/02/2012
Communication. Communication. Communication. It helps sort everything out and keeps you intimate and close to each other. Friendship, respect and kindness are the bedrock of a relationship and if you don't have them then everything else starts to flounder and fail - that includes your sex life.

A little cheesy flirting, a sexy look, and lingering caresses as you pass by on your daily duties helps keep the fire stoked. It's hard to light a fire if the embers are cold so keep them burning with a little flirting - even if it's fake and forced to begin with the results are surprising. Trust me.
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Limari Colon
02:42 PM on 03/02/2012
Thank you Anne!
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meanlady21
11:53 PM on 03/01/2012
Women don't have sex with their husbands because
1. Most are not good in bed. It's the same old quick 5 seconds & it's over. As usual he's just thinking of himself.
2. Most don't help around the house we become tired and overwhelmed, angry and he starts looking like the enemy.
3. he's nicer to his friends than you, not romantic, kind, sweet or concerned about the wife only himself. forget sex with him he ain't what you had in mind as a life long partner anymore.
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Limari Colon
02:48 PM on 03/02/2012
Hardcore, yet true. I've heard that from so many women.
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08:55 PM on 03/05/2012
Wow, showing some true colors now. You should have started the article stating these are your views.
09:47 PM on 03/02/2012
Interesting, but I have to ask:

1) Have you slept with most of the men on the planet? If not, how do you know this to be the case?
2) Have you lived with with most of the men on the planet? Again, if not, how do you know this to be the case?
3) See #2

I no more like men lumping all women together based solely on the relationships they've been in, than I do women lumping all men together based solely on the relationships they've been in. It's not really fair to either gender.

Perhaps a more apt opening line would've been, "Why I don't have sex with my husband'???
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Limari Colon
09:27 AM on 03/05/2012
Do you have sex with your husband?
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Crisdean Wulver
We've got our priorities screwed up.
06:13 PM on 03/01/2012
If You Don't Treat Your Woman Right, You Will Lose Her

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Home is Where I Lost Her - Roy Buchanan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffxAuYmxt3A
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LivelyLexie
Don't panic.
02:27 PM on 03/01/2012
This article's title is a bit misleading. It should be changed to "Why new moms won't have sex with their husbands", not just "women".
07:16 AM on 03/02/2012
true
12:03 PM on 03/01/2012
"Sure you can feed your child with formula, leave him in a daycare center, and use the cry it out method, but what if you want to practice full time breastfeeding and attachment parenting, like me?" Wow, judgmental much?
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Ashley Smith0327
11:34 AM on 03/01/2012
There's a simple fix to this husbands and dads. The more you help with caring for the child, cleaning and errands is the more us wives/moms have energy to "care" for you at the end of the day. No woman wants a lazy man that is always sitting on the couch all day, while we work, then beg for intimacy at night when we are exhausted.

Seems simple enough right? Use my hoover, I'll be yours later ;)
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Laquita Jones
09:54 AM on 03/01/2012
I hate to say it but women who don't sleep with men do a disservice to the men and other women in the world. I can't tell you how many times I have been over looked by men because I don't want to get married or have children and I love sex. The guys are so brainwashed and emotionally wrecked that they think something must be wrong with me or that i am trying to run game on them because they have never met a woman who was just interested in them and actually wants to have a lot of sex with them. I know that women who have babies go through a lot of changes with their bodies, and hormones but that shouldn't take away the love one has for their spouse. Sex is some part physical and if, even after a baby or even if you don't feel like having sex, the sight of your naked spouse should not be a turn off. If it is, in my opinion, you really were not that sexually attracted to your spouse to begin with. i would get more aroused by the sight of Brad Pitt walking naked through my house than watching him, fully clothed doing laundry or the dishes and I can't really see any woman disagreeing with that. :-)
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11:45 AM on 03/02/2012
I'm disagreeing with that.

If I saw BP walking around my house naked, I'd most definitely call 911. I would perhaps reconsider, if he put his clothes back on and offered to do the dishes -- or better yet, clean the house.

I really don't get the appeal of Brad "Hamster Cheeks" Pitt. He was mentioned on this thread alone several times already as if he were all that. He isn't. IM(apparently isolated)O.
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John Hazelton Smith
Don't get caught...
04:32 PM on 03/02/2012
I think she is using him as a reference for everyone's personal taste. We don't know what type each of us desires but BP seems to be a known name that most people, or at least a great many find attractive. I find Angelina Jolie attractive and i refer to my wife as my Angelina Jolie; and since she finds BP attractive, she refers to be as her Brad Pitt. it's a compliment.
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WhyBeadNormal
I live by the Golden Rule...
09:34 AM on 03/01/2012
This is not just about sex after babies....it's about life in general when you both have to work. The typical thing we women do is try to do everything and we set ourselves up to fail. We work full time and then we come home and cook dinner and other things while he comes home and sits on the couch watching the news. I'm not saying every couple is like this but the majority are and it's our fault (the women) for letting it happen.

I personally believe that whoever has the most time at home is who should be doing the most house work and cooking....him or her....it doesn't matter. If you both have the same amount then work together on Sat. morning to clean house and do the laundry , alternate who cooks during the week or cook together (nice foreplay!) so that you can spend the rest of the weekend together. It's that simple.

Ladies....we need to speak up and ask for this to happen...the men don't just know it's what needs to be done! It makes for a much happier relationship and/or marriage this way and I'm speaking as a former martyr AKA: superwoman who gave it up when I learned a better way:)
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Counterglow
Werner Heisenberg may have been right.
06:59 AM on 03/01/2012
To get ye laid
Hire ye a maid
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Limari Colon
08:57 AM on 03/01/2012
Oh, I wish! That's definitely one thing on my Bucket List this year.
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MissTake1989
Equal means equal, hypocrites.
04:38 PM on 03/01/2012
Or cut out the middle man and hire an escort.
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AkiraBergman
12:36 AM on 03/01/2012
The main problem here is the assumption that monogamous marriage is natural for humans.

Go back to the hunter gatherer age, which was the longest previous phase in our evolution, and you will find that there was no marriage. People lived in groups of matriarchy. Such groups still exist. I reckon humanity will eventually go back to it. Perhaps even this century.
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Limari Colon
06:36 AM on 03/01/2012
I don't know if I agree with you on this one. Perhaps we are not monogamous by nature, but the social implications of polygamy in today's Western culture makes me think it will never work out.
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AkiraBergman
08:51 AM on 03/01/2012
Mormons do it, although an undesirable male-centric version of polygamy. Monogamy does not work anyway. Perhaps it never worked but never reported. Just look at the divorce rate and the dysfunctional children monogamy produces. I reckon two of the main reasons why humanity have failed are the monogamy and religion. We have destroyed the nature and we are currently on a world war path.
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outlawjames8
12:14 PM on 03/01/2012
Totally agree. Marriage is basically a legal contract. All the religious ritual associated is just for show. None of the stars in any of the various religious text were monogamous.
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AkiraBergman
04:50 PM on 03/01/2012
Both religion and monogamy are claimed to be based on undying love, which is just a myth. Even the military is similar with their claimed patriotism.
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Teacher Trish
The Enlightenment was a good idea.
10:40 PM on 02/29/2012
Amen Sister.
RealistBC
Micro-bios must pass muster.
09:10 PM on 02/29/2012
Here's a challenge to all the women on this thread. You are all experts at telling us men what to do. What would you tell other women to do to improve our relations with each other? I'll eliminate the "Divorce him and find someone else" answer right off the bat so that you actually have to think of something else that isn't so easy for you.
09:49 PM on 02/29/2012
We don't ALL believe we are experts at telling our man what to do...or even tell our man what to do for that matter.

My husband and I each have our own strengths (and weaknesses) and we capitalize on those in our relationship. Basically, if I am better at something...I take on the responsibility and vice versa. We don't try to change the other into what WE want them to be...we already are what the other wants: We wouldn't be together if we weren't.

With that being said, my only advise to other women is stop trying to change your man into what you want him to be. You married him, warts and all, for who he was: Hopefully not for who you thought you could turn him into after the "I do's".

Okay...not my "only" advise. lol And STOP using sex as a reward for his being a "good boy"/for "learning" that "invaluable" lesson you thought was your place to teach him, etc. If you put in as much effort to looking/feeling sexy for him as you demand he make you feel...life will be good.
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Limari Colon
06:42 AM on 03/01/2012
It's interesting how many men feel that I intended to point out that they are faulty and need changing from us women. I think I've answered you a couple of comments Realist! As I said in the intro of my post, this is a direct reply/discussion that arose from another blog post, by a man, and the title of that post is: "Why Won't My Wife Have Sex With Me?" I thought about my own issues with childbirth, hence I wrote about it. I have no expertise whatsoever in the matter, and I love my husband so much, divorce is not in my plans. That said, I have also stated many times that I do not condone, nor use sex as a reward. I pointed out that arousal has more to do with the way men treat their wife, than with how they look. Because my husband is extremely hot, but if I am too tired to even think about sex, there's nothing he can do about that. Clear enough? Thanks for keeping the discussion up!
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Counterglow
Werner Heisenberg may have been right.
07:01 AM on 03/01/2012
As I wrote above, in verse: hire a maid.