Cemar:

Well, like I said, he needs to make sure she's getting the REJECTION thing.

With some women, sex is not important. It may not be just the body image thing. That just adds fuel. They can live without it. But keep in mind, if something is not necessarily important to one person, they may not necessarily know that it could kill their marriage unless the other person communicates that to them. Depending on how people are brought up, sex may not be what they think is an integral part of keeping an M together, it's the other stuff -- being the wife by keeping the house clean, the kids are ok, etc. If they weren't brought up to think or know that sex is a big part of intimacy, etc., etc. and not just an act that we do to feel good or whatever, that person isn't going to just KNOW that it's going to kill the M.

Then after awhile if the other person quits nagging or just "accepts" it, like AC's wife and maybe like me, you just go on your merry way. No one is saying anything about it, you can live without it so that's that. YOU HAVE GOT TO COMMUNICATE HOW VERY SERIOUS THIS ISSUE IS.


Me: 38
H: 35
S4, S5, S10
Bomb 01/07
Wanted D - nothing would change his mind
Numerous A's prior to D bomb; EA prior/during D bomb
Piecing 04/07
Deployed for a year 05/07
Still Piecing 2010
M 11 yrs 05/10