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Sexless Marriage (when one partner is ill)

Men's Health | Last Active: Dec 15 11:01am | Replies (196)

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@amandajro

Hello @lonelyhusband1968 and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. Empathy for another person's situation is core to this community, so I am glad you've joined and shared your feelings and experience.

It is understandable she isn't able to have sex if it causes pain. What I am wondering if she is open to intimacy, outside of intercourse, or if she is no longer interested in general?

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Hi Amanda, and thanks for answering! I think she is sometimes interested but it doesn't feel real sometimes, as if she is trying to keep me happy but basically is turned off intimacy in general because she thinks I will want it to escalate into something. To be honest, I think this condition has put her off any kind of amorous feeling although we still exchange our love for each other verbally. But other times she is cold and angry towards me, and that makes me the same to her. Our mutual massages are nice, but it's always me that suggests and initiates them, and again feels like she is ambivalent.
I feel terrible that she is going through this, but sometimes her unkindness gets to me. I guess we all want to be loved somehow!