Honeypot - you're a dear for helping me address these issues. I guess I don't really do anything to help the situation I am complaining about. I guess if I fondled him more out of the bedroom maybe we would get that spark back. So, you're saying if we're sitting on the couch or just brushing against each other in the hall if I ventured out and (for lack of a better word) groped him, he might recipicate with a little more passion in the bedroom and not so humdrum?

As for the pedestal idea, I think you might be on to something there. But then an earlier comment about him not wanting to bring back past thoughts (childhood) might be accurate also - I had never even thought of that. But he does confuse me with that because in the past when I have tried to broach the subject to a little more passion in bed he made the comment "I KNOW what you want", like I was asking him to do something terrible. I was just trying to get him to spice it up a bit.