Dave, I am also the type of person who gets very crabby when I haven't eaten. My mother said I was like this straight outta the womb. The very first thing I do in the morn is eat cereal. (well after attending to the D's) I am not a meal skipper. I eat 3 squares a day (healthy ones too) and do not snack. I tend to eat a lot during mealtime cause I have a big appetite and also b/c I do not snack.
Why am I going on about this nonsensical crud? Because it sortof does correlate to how I am with no sex. I get a sense of mental crabbiness going on when my body feels discomfort. My H would be perfectly understanding of my Hunger Crabbiness, and would even take it upon himself to remedy it.
So why is there this idea that we should all not be crabby over the lack of sex yet hunger is an okay reason to crab?
OR is it that both partners need to agree on what is an acceptable amount of time to pass before the crabbiness sets in? For example, H does not go along with my Day Three 'tude, he thinks that ridiculous. But let it pass to one week with no sex and he is perfectly accomodating. I think this is because that is the time that HE starts to feel bodily discomfort! I wish he could see that it is no different with me, just quicker. All in good time, Honey, I keep telling myself.
I have spent a great deal of time trying to sublimate this tendency of mine to get crabby after a certain time period but I don't know if that is the right thing to do or not. It has certainly acted as motivation for H, which I hate, but at the same time it is just a natural reaction that happens...nothing calculated on my part at all. Just as if I hadn't eaten all day and it was 6 o'clock, I'd be a bear. (btw, I can't even imagine such a scenario occurring!)
