And why do you think that will work? The whole thing with displaying anger doesn't work with her. What you're describing would result in her saying it's a turnoff when I'm angry like that. I have had lots of conversations when I was emphatic and very clear about that I wanted just her. She just took it as pressure. You know, it's really hard to convey in e-mail the whole body language and who I am as a person. I expecting your reply to be that I wasn't using the right tone and all that, because the words I chose above don't convey my tone and emotions from those times. I'm not a literary writer.

I don't know why you think what you're suggesting is new? Everybody thinks they're telling me new stuff.

I several times gave her some books, as you describe, with some rather emphatic words about how important it was to me. She took them as insults, and that I thought there was something wrong with her.

Years, ago, in a moment of relaxed honesty, she simply told me she was done with sex because it took too much time, and she didn't see the point in it. I didn't know what to say at the time, it was so different from my way of thinking.