Menapause

DennisB

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I have hit menapause and would like to discuss something. Before reaching this esteem level, i heard all kinds of rumors and stories about how our sex drive just ends, we dry up like a piece of old bread, and a list of other symptoms which are not appropriate on a sex site but better suited for a medical site, lol. I will comment that no period every month is just freaking wonderful!!! :)

So anyways, my sexual desire has diminished. Just like i have read from many other men who have described their wives. Well it is true that my desire for sex has dropped, my desire for intimacy has not. Nor has my love for my husband. While he does almost all the initiating now, (in the past it was me, ;) ), it is his turn now and there is nothing wrong with that. I do sometimes initiate but it is mostly him. But once he has turned on his charm and got me all worked up, i am full of lust and desire. I want to satisfy my husband, please him, tease him, make him orgasm and become one in sexual intimacy. I dont understand how a wife does not want to still cuddle, love, and please the man she married? I read some of these posts from husbands who have sex once or twice a year and just wonder?? Now, being a smart woman, and we are smarter then men :), there is always 2 sides to a story and i am not hearing the women's viewpoint. My husband has slowed down as well and we are not chasing each other around the house naked every hour like the good old days, i remember them well :). So we are in sync again as always; and even when i have no desire whosoever, i still want to sexually please my husband by either jerking him off or blowing him. I just do not understand how a wife does not want to sexually satisfy her husband. I hate to put it this way but dont you love him anymore? Your body says, "i really dont want or need anything right now" but your mind and your heart says, "he needs something". Maybe that is another phase of menapause that i havent reached yet? The final phase when my heart stops? I am 51 so when this phase comes, maybe i will be in my 80's? Is that the age of all these men on here who's wives have neglected them, are you all in your 80's?
I am being slightly sarcastic, i do not believe such a state will he reached. I dont understand what is happening in some of your marriages. Like i said, there is always 2 sides. Do you make her feel special? Do you tell her how beautiful she is every day? Do you tell her how much you love her? Or do you sit on your fat ass as she cooks, cleans, washes, vacuums, etc, etc and then as she is exhausted, do you come over and want her to bend over? Here is a hint for men from a wife, if you make her feel like she is your gift and the most important thing in your life, you will be surprised at what will happen. And dont do that when you just want sex! My husband tells me every day how beautiful i am. On my worst day when i have been crying and have raccoon eyes, hair a mess, and body bloated from my period, he will look at me with his blue eyes and tell me and show me how much in love with me he is.

You want you wife to feel like a woman, show her how much you love her. Perhaps for some of you, this might take a while because it hasnt happened for decades? Keep working on it though and you will see what happens. Cant you vacuum? Cant you wash the pots and pans? If you treat her like a work horse, no wonder why when she comes to bed she is exhausted.

This is just my 2 cents and your marriage is none of my business like my marriage is none of your business. I am just trying to give you some female advice. Take it or leave it but do NOT get nasty. I am trying to help you all who complain about not getting sex from your wives.
 
Nicely said! Thank you!
Treat her as though she is your Queen and in return she will treat you as a King.
That's my motto. Let's hope.
 
And if you treat her like a queen and she treats you like a servant? When the degree to which your sexual desire is acceptable is solely a function of her interest in receiving it? When every dumb-ass thing anything anyone has ever said about what a wife should or should not do invades your bedroom? What then? Is there ever a point at which a woman bares responsibility or does it always come back to the stereotype of a meathead guy who needs to do more?
 
My wife has gone thru the change and she has lost all desire,we ruled out hormonal therapy due to the associated risk. She loves me and looks out for me but there is a definite change in attitude. She knows I want intercourse and she tried till it became to painful but she made other efforts to please which have become more infrequent. I don't want to ask for it if she doesn't want to do it. Even well intentioned displays of affection for it's own sake could be confused with a desire to have sex which would be hurtful. She feeling empathy for me offered "what I don't know won't hurt me" which has torn me. I don't want sexual satisfaction from someone else because it will lead to an emotional connection which will lead to disaster

I began to toy with the idea of being serviced by men as there would be no emotional connection with me. This seems to be a common trend in older males but for me there must be some attraction and one of my more horny days I actually looked at men as sexual temporary partner and there was nothing appealing in a real world scenario. Everything I've written makes sense to me but I could see as being confusing to someone else, my apologies.
 
And if you treat her like a queen and she treats you like a servant? When the degree to which your sexual desire is acceptable is solely a function of her interest in receiving it? When every dumb-ass thing anything anyone has ever said about what a wife should or should not do invades your bedroom? What then? Is there ever a point at which a woman bares responsibility or does it always come back to the stereotype of a meathead guy who needs to do more?

Let me clarify. I said that i dont know the whole story and only hear one side, the male side. I agree with you, it is 100% the womans responsibility to satisfy her husband just like it is 100% the husbands responsibility to satisfy his wife. If you have treated her like the queen that she is and she still does not act like a wife, that is her fault.
 
thank you

What a balanced, wise, overall positive and nice post!

I am only about to start exploring love and gradually enjoy the delight of relationships thanks to gifts by Mother Nature, and thanks to yet-to-meet the One.
But in twenty-years-time, I wish to be as optimistic (and realistic!), and, what's more important, as loved and happy as you are.

if you make her feel like she is your gift and the most important thing in your life, you will be surprised at what will happen.

I was just about to object on something in the middle of the post but then I read it till the end. I've much wondered about sexless marriages myself. But! when it comes to relationships and intimacy, ladies are usually the flexible, adjusting, supportive ones. Just by nature. We are made this way at least, and folk wisdom tells us the same. The question is, whether the man has the right approach. So, I would consider your post Perfect if the F/M parts were switched places.

Luck and Nature, let us everyone meet out happiness
 
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