sexual dysfunction and possible failing marriage

Sex Problems for Men

I dont know where to start but i am going to be as honest as possible, also i know my grammar and punctuation make it hard to read my posts.
i am a 25 yr old male who is married to a 26 soon to be 27 year old female. we met 2 and a half years ago and got married within 3 months and a lot has happened and has been bothering me very much lately.
To start at the begining,when we first met she was a temp at a realestate agency and was fooling around with her boss and trying to get him in a serious relationship but he wouldn't committ and he was on and off with his ex gf, this guy was loaded with cash and could have given my wife the world.

I was a drug addict with 1 year clean, no highschool degree and no job, I was living at home with my mother and had nothing. Within 2 weeks after she told her boss it was over I moved in with her into her apartment with her and her 2 yr old son.
Things were hot and heavy and we spent all our time together and having decent sex.
She was on welfare and we didnt even have tv or a pot to piss in but she took me to all my rehab meetings and all my therapy appts and was very supportive.
Things were very well betwween us relationship wise and i even signed her sons birth certificate and made him my own since his father bailed at birth, i also have a 6 yr old daughter from a previous relationship.

After 3 months we got married against my familys and her fams wishes, shortly after I started using again. I was taking all of her money and taking the car and disappearing at night.
We started heavy arguing and fistfighting, sometimes she would hit me and sometimes i would hit her, and no i am not proud of that at all, it makes me sick.
I went to numerous rehabs over these 2 yrs and finally I have a year clean from my drug of choice but I do occasionally smoke pot.

After numerous moves and 2 shelters we stayed in, we just moved to Indiana where we wanted to start fresh and make things better. It is also alot cheaper to live here than in New York where we were before. All my life i had low to no self esteem and no self worth which is playing a major factor now in my eyes.

since we been here things have been rocky finally got a job but i only make 8.50 an hour and can only work 30 hrs a week cause during the day while shes at work i watch the kids, we have a 2 year ild daughter now as well.
Our sex life basically ceased to exist. For a while it was me not wanting to have sex while she wanted it, due to the fact that i have a not so big penis and i come very quick, i get very frustrated and very hurt by this, to me it seems like she doesnt even feel me inside her.
now its her that is not interested in sex and me that wants to have more sex to see if we can correct the coming issue.

Now this is the tricky part she has a very good job making 14 an hour and 22 an hour on overtime, she is a career professional and works with professional men that are way better providers than myself. She spends all her time at work cause she says she wants to get us out of debt so we can have things in life. They also will be sending her to Japan, Mexico, Chicago, California, China, Taiwaan,and other places to do business. Me not being sexually pleasing and having low self esteem, and the fact that my last 2 gf that were serious longterm relationships have cheated on me, doesnt make this situation of her being at work all the time and going away with profeesional men easy for me. Actually i find it terrifing and sickening.

The last 3 weeks i have been accusing her of cheating which does not help,but while she is at work i get images of her screwing another man and it makes me irate and hurt. She says she loves me and only wants me and keeps telling me that but i just cant believe it, i see no reason for her to want me not after all ive done and not after all this crap sex and not for my provider abilities.

She tells me she couldnt cheat because it is morally wrong and she wouldnt do such a thing.
for the last 3 weeks she wouldnt even let me touch her because on xmas i told her i cheated on her with my x back in New York, I didnt but i said it to be a dick cause i feel hurt. She said i couldnt touch her till i earned trust back,but that just made me think more that she is having an affair.
before me she had 53 partners that she slept with and more that she fooled around with she even had a girlfriend that she used to just kiss so she says.
That doesnt make me feel any better, although when we were first together she told me i was the 3rd best she has had which seemed like an honest answer.

Lately she claims she's getting older and sex doesnt interest her. I dont understand how that can be from someone that was so sexually active before. i love her more than anything but i am very confused as to why she is with me. She dosnt like my music, my dress style, my humor, we argue over parenting techniques, she doesnt like how little money i am able to contribute to the family.

just this last week we have began having sex again and it is horrible, i swear my penis is not as big as it used to be if thats possible,i swear when i was 18 i measured around 6 and a half inches now i barely make 4 and i seem to be fully erect and thats when i can even stay erect. Now we are both over weight, I weigh 245 and she weighs 270 which puts more distance betwwen my penis and her vagina well it seems to anyways.

We have had alot of fights where she would call the cops even if i was defending myself but she never had me locked up just removed from the house. She needs to be in control of everything at all times which drives me nuts.

I was sexually abused at a young age by my cousin in turn i did it to my other cousin,i was also beat up alot almost everyday by the same neighborhhod kids and would never defend myself as i felt it was my place to take the abuse. She had a father who was a cop and never home and a mother that cheated on her father and then let her new bf beat my wife till she was unconcious in a bathtub then disowned my wife. she went to live with her dad who didnt want her and was mentally and sometimes physically abusive,she was also raped twice and sexually assualted 2 times.

She seems to have had relations with alot of her employers over the years which makes me think she likes men with power and authority which she lets me have none of.
I cant find any evidence of cheating no matter how much snooping i do, although she does have a password protected companty laptop and a comapny cellphone, she cant give me the password cause when u log on it goes to their protected server and you have to verify who you are and she could get fired. Also she has to have contact with multiple people mostly men on a daily basis to coordinate shipments so its not like i would notice any weird guys numbers cause it could just be business related.
i have had time to play on it while she was away from it and have found nothing incriminating.
i dont know if it is just my paranoia from past relationships hauntimg me or if she is cheating and none of this is helping my sexual function or the marriage.

She says i need to trust her as she has never gave me reason to think she would cheat even when we were split up or when I was in rehab for a month,she was staying with her cousin where this guy kept coming in her room and climbing in bed with her so she packed her and the kids up at 1am and went to my moms house till i came home 2 weeks later.
All i want is to feel loved and to be able to love her wthout jealous feelings and i want a normal sex life, if she is cheating i dont know why she would hide it as losing me she os not really losing anything since i barely make anything.
Im torn between believeing her or leaving her, and i dont want to throw this away as i love her and my kids. Her job threatens me very much as she feels appreciated at work but not at home, but its hard for me to be nice because i have these images of her with someone and I just snap. It's a vicious cycle that wont stop, i fear there isnt much time left before she does stray or we fall apart,and counseling would take longer than that.
we are supposed to do cousceling after she gets her health benefits in like 2 weeks but im skeptical as the last time we did counseling for marriage that same coinselor was seeing her 1 on 1 and seemed to make everthing my fault.
do you have any advice as to whether she could be cheating?
Advice on how to improve sexually?
Why my penis seems smaller than ever?
how to reconnect with her seeing as how my love letters and words dont seem to help.

tonight was cool though as she came home early so she could get a movie card and rent us some movies so we could spend time together, just the sex didnt go well. First she had coffee on the head board and it spilt all in her cell phone so we had to stop,but she was being all forceful telling me to go down and where to lick and how hard to do it. No offence but due to my mother having sex with her bf in fromt of me who he was married by the way then 2 gf of long term relatinships f...ing my friends makes me view women as whores and i dont like feeling that way, i want to be able to love fully and openly with no walls or boundaries.

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Too long mail

This is more that we normally would publish.
The essence of what you are worrying about is your own low self esteem and shame from your past.

There is no evidence that she is cheating.

Your penis has not shrunk, you are just distorting your image of it due to stress nd worry. This is call dysmorphopobia if you want to find out more.

As a recovering addict, you are going to feel all sorts of paranoid suspicions and feelings until you get used to experiencing and managing your feeling is a healthy and ok way. In the meantime, you can be very careful about your behaviour. You know violence is out, and it makes you feel terrible.

Her controlling ways are a result of her own rotten past. You both have had difficult childhoods, which may be a part of why you are together. You have a shared experience and a deep understanding of what that is.

I understand that you think all women are whores and will cheat. A child who observed his mother having sex is going to be affected by that. At another level, you know that it is not true, could not possibly be true, of all women.

Go to the counselling and tell the counsellor how you felt last time.
Search the internet and click on here for good advice on improving premature ejaculation.

what happened today

We got to talking today, mostly about my insecurities and how it affects our relationship, and about where we are in life.
She wants no sex right now and wants me to prove I can have an emotional relationship first. I find this scary as i dont do well with intimacy even though i want to, and i cant understand how someone with such a sexual personality as her can not want sex.

We almost went separate ways this morning, as she wants to go to theater shows and do the bed and breakfast thing, and wants to do fancy diners and stuff, whereas I want to go to a bar when we go out. I find fancy stuff to be all stuffy and at a higher class than me, kinda snobbish as well.

We were saying to each other how we are at different places in life and how she did her bar thing and partying thing years ago and im just getting there now.
Its not that i want to go out and drink all the time cause i do not like getting drunk, but i would be happy to have bar friends and laugh and sing stupid music, those are things that make me happy. I dont need all fancy crap or to go to theater shows nor does it interest me.

I will do it though, cause it cant all be one way. My concern is, as i said to her, it doesnt sound like she wants me, it sounds like she wants a more upclass man, also it feels as if she views me as a boy and not a man and maybe a boy was good fun for a while but i do not want to be thrown away now.

Can this be repaired? I have never had such problems in a relationship and would like to stay married as I do not want to be one of those people that get married multiple times. I also feel i have enough kids now and dont need to be starting anymore families.

Thanks for posting my message even know it was very long, I have been looking for a forum like this for a while now and am glad i found one. I feel i can get good help and advice here and just reading the other posts helps.

Well done

Well done for talking. I don't know if it can be repaired or not, but if you both want to, and can be patient, and try not to be harsh to each other, and really think about the relationship, then you stand as good a chance as any. Don't make too many assumptions about what you think she mens. If you are in any doubt, ask her. Being at different stages does not mean the relaionship is a write off.

The counselling could be very useful, but you need to be honest with the counsellor about what you felt happened last time.

For yourself, you need to find some help with working on your shame. That is your biggest thing behind your low self esteem. You have come so far, kept clean for a long while, take care of the kids, had the courage to take the step of posting here, you have some things to feel really good about.

I won't be commenting to you further, but other people might. I hope you sort things out.

ok crisis just hit,plz respond one more time i really need help

after the talking and kinda argument this morning and us saying we are different and in different places, she got to work and im,d me that we are done and that she cant do this anymore but she loves me,i pleaded with her to work it out but she said she has no fight left and we are broken and too differnt,she started using my stuff against nme saying i was right about being to different and i shouldnt give up what i want for her,like she was being the good guy.after a while and me having a nervous breakdown she called home on her lunch break.i told her i would do whjatever it takes to fix things,i would make all necessary changes,she kept saying she loves me but she just cant do it and she needs to be alone.now i have made these promises many times before with intentions on keeping them but failed to do so.after begging me not to reel her back in,i got this from her "if u want 1 more chance then as of right now we start fresh with no rules and no control games'this includes her having male friends again and going out with them to eat and drink some,phone convo,text messages,internet chat.now this while time she has told me that no one at work is cute and no one has hit on her but today when i asked she said that this 1 guy keeps asking her if she is sure she is married,to me this sounds like dating,especially doesnt sound good if we are in a tuff spot in the marriage.she said she has always been more of one of the guys than the type to have girlfriends.i agreed to this but i dont think i can handle it,as well as i cant handle a breakup i get very depressed and irrational behavior,i kick and scream and puke and get very eexcited and that lasts for weeks,this is worse as here i indiana i have no where to go.she says we can try but she doubts we are fixable and too much damage has been done,she also said she wants or needs a relationship that is comfortable and alot less effort needed.to me it sounds like i am about to be replaced,it sounds like a setup for
failure.
does this sound right?

back on track?

she gave me one more shot but she says i must give her the trust i never have and let her have guy friends and be able to go out with them if she chooses. I have never let any of my gf let alone wife have any guy friends, my wife has had almost all guy friends her whole life as she gets along with them better so she says.s

Sex is off the table again due to her saying she wants a emotional relationship first from me to prove that i want her and not just sex, I'd have no problem with this if she didnt have such a sexual history. She says to give sex to me would leave her open for me to hurt her again and she cant risk that right now.i

I
feel she doesnt want to touch me cause she could be screwing someone else. i dont know what to think and i dont want to blow this by keep getting mad at her and accusing her but i also dont want to get hurt by giving her the emotion she wants and find out someone else has been giving the sex.i

I want to beleive her but i never believe anyone.can someone please respond with some good advice, as we have major plans for her birthday and i dont want to get too close if this doesnt seem right, her bday is thursday the 8th.

Once again you have no

Once again you have no evidence that there is anyone else she wants, and she is being consistent, she just wants to be reminded that you love her emotionally and as a woman, not just for a sexual object.

You say you never believe anyone, so this disbelief is about you, not her. You have been let down badly in the past so it is understandable.

Set aside your disbeleif and give har a lovely birthday. Naturally you will feel scared and have doubts, but that is from you past, not your today.

i see now

ive been such a selfish prick and took things for granted,now im am giving all and it feels so good and right, I feel human and like a family man, i am so happy right now,we have reservations for a dinner theater tonight.a

Also i have a big thing planned for when we get home, i am going to decorate our bedroom with ballons and flowers,i bought wine glassed and wine, perfume and other stuff, i made a romantic playlist and i am going to dance with her since i never have and shes been wanting it.

I set this all up myself and it feels so good, i feel ive found that missing piece ive been looking for by using drugs, i have been doing it all wrong all along, thinking she wants a tuff ass gangsta and all she seems to want is a husband, so freakin simple ,im a idiot.thank you for your help,and yes there are still issues but this is a very good start for us