I thought it was pretty emotional and no my face doesn’t show much emotion. I believe she understands that this is important to me and I have told her (verbally and in writing) that it hurts me and is important to me. I know she feels bad that we don’t LM. Most recently she replied to a question about why we haven’t with “I’ve not felt like it and you’ve not pushed the issue”. I’ve not pushed the issue since 1) I don’t want to seem needy and 2) I thought she might want some room from the regular sex discussions 3) sympathy sex has zero appeal nowadays.

The counselor we saw mentioned that I shouldn’t worry about telling her things (my thoughts and feeling) that make her cry…I’ve not ever really got my hands around that one…does that kind of fit with what your thinking?