I have been in a loving relationship with my boyfriend for more than a year, but I have a high sex drive and, while I have been trying to encourage him, I feel he doesn’t really care about my needs
I met my boyfriend shortly before the first lockdown in March last year, and had never been in a relationship as peaceful and happy as this one. I am 25, and he is 30, and I can imagine having kids with him and growing old together, if only for this one problem. I have always had a high sex drive – and, although, at the beginning of our relationship, we had a lot of sex, after a while, I began to realise that I was always the one initiating it.
I didn’t initiate for a couple of weeks to see if he would, but he never did. This led to us only having sex if I started it. I brought this up with him and told him how unwanted it made me feel. At first, he said it just wasn’t on his mind; then, he said he felt dirty and unattractive. Later, he said that now I had brought it up, he was too insecure to initiate out of fear he wouldn’t be good in bed. I have tried to build up his self-confidence by making compliments about his appearance, kissing him and jumping on to his lap.
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