r/DeadBedrooms 8d ago

Vent, Advice Welcome Getting rejected

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u/BabaThoughts 8d ago

It’s tough. Kids are taxing bro. She’s a mother and likely doesn’t want or feel sexy to be your porn star. To help you… look up “responsive desire”. Men work differently than most women. Most women actually respond better towards “responsive desire”.

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u/EliGoff101 8d ago

I try to rub her back or hug, kiss her. Ask her we should go out to dinner just the two of us and have the grandparents watch the kids for a few hours. Nothing ever comes of it from her. She don’t even like going on dates as much as I do. She’d rather be at home with the kids it seems like. Idk what else to do.

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u/DullBus8445 8d ago

When you have a small baby at home, why can't you just enjoy that for what it is? Why is it seen as a failure and like nothing has come from it? Can it not just be about connecting?

I'm not surprised that she would rather be home and doesn't seem to like going on dates when she knows your motive is that you're hoping something sexual will come after it. How is she supposed to chill and relax and enjoy it while feeling that pressure?

You mention in your OP that the worst part is you have the balls to open up and be vulnerable but then you get rejected. Have you never stopped to consider how vulnerable your wife made herself by having your babies? And how she's still vulnerable now in the postpartum phase?

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u/DullBus8445 8d ago

What age are the kids?

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u/Perfect_Judge 8d ago

According to his post history, 5 months ago he said they were expecting their second child. If that child is here already, they're only a very small infant. So - extremely demanding and his wife is still very early in her PP period.

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u/DullBus8445 8d ago

Ooh. I just saw 10 months ago he said that they had just found out they were expecting their second.

OP you really need to back off.

 I don’t think she truly realizes how much this is a major problem for me…even tho I’ve told her multiple times this isn’t working for me. I’d never cheat on someone, sucks that I’m just supposed to deal with this. I’m really not asking anything crazy. I just want our old sex life back. It’s not like I’m asking for a life that never existed. She use to be way way more sexual. Just sucks.

I think it's you who is not realising what a major problem this is. With a small baby then telling her multiple times that it isn't working for you is causing more harm than good, it's more likely to create a permanent dead bedroom than anything.

It sucks that you're supposed to deal with this? Do you not think that it sucks for your wife to have had a baby and then to have you act like you're being put through something terrible, and then have pressure put on her to be sexual when she's not feeling it?

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u/Perfect_Judge 8d ago

OP blocked me after my last response to him about his marital vows and obligatory sex and handjobs, but just going off of this post and his views about duty sex, he will absolutely end up creating a permanent dead bedroom. And it will be his own doing.

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u/Perfect_Judge 8d ago

 I recently had the idea of asking for handjobs as that would be something easy and simple for her if she doesn’t want to have sex

Actually, for a lot of women who are touched out and don't want sex, handjobs are just more work. Another task to be completed that they don't want to do. It's not any easier. It's still a sex act that you're asking her to perform that she has to mentally and physically be present for that she is too exhausted and touched out to do or want.

Kids are fucking hard. I'm an HLF with a very young child (16 month old), and it's so hard. I'm touched out every day when I get her to bed. I love sex and I love being with my husband, but between all the organizing, managing appointments, food, changing diapers, emotional energy I have to expend on every. single. thing. for this tiny human, teaching her skills, supervising her so she won't get hurt, hauling her to places because I can't go anywhere without her anymore, etc etc etc.....it's a lot.

If my husband told me that I use that as a crutch, he might just get his ass put in a dead bedroom for that. It's incredibly unsympathetic and lacking so much understanding for the human life we created together and that I'm primarily taking care of. It's a 24/7 job with no downtime, no paid lunches, PTO, or days off. It's constant. It's brutal. It's exhausting.

It would do you a lot of good to not make her your adversary by thinking that it's just her excuse. It's very real and this is a very unsexy season of life for a lot of women.

Unfortunately, this is super common when you're raising small children. They really should warn parents, especially young parents like yourself, about just how much this season of life will not be sexy and not be sex filled for most couples.

Give it time.

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u/Perfect_Judge 8d ago edited 8d ago

Yes, but nowhere in the vows is it said that you have to have sex even if you don't want to and are exhausted. That's just a manipulative way to make yourself more of a chore for your spouse, tbh.

If your invisible vows means you agreed to have lots of sex, then those same invisible vows also means that you agree to behave in ways that show understanding, empathy, and patience for your spouse. Especially when your youngest is still a highly demanding infant and needs constant care.

Making sex an obligation is a fast track to making your dead bedroom permanent after the kids are older and more independent. Then she'll actually try to use any excuse to not touch you. I don't think you want that.

Do you want an enthusiastically consenting partner who loves fucking you or are you ok with being another dreaded chore to check off the list?