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Husband Doesn't Understand The Pain Of Intercourse

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Any time something foundational in a marriage changes? A lot of people divorce over it. Not because they...

It's not the sex issue that is the problem.

If he actually cared beyond having a hole to stick his wang, he'd care that his wife was trying very hard to make him happy but it was extremely painful to her.

But no, he doesn't. He's being an insensitive jerk.

OP the root of the matter isn't sex. The root of the matter is that you married a selfish clod who doesn't care about you and says that his pleasure is above and beyond more important than your pain.

There are PLENTY of marriages with sexual problems. Those who actually care about their partner are compassionate. They try to work toward a solution.

I hate to break it to you but you are a giver and you married a taker. You are willing to give him sexual gratification at your own expense while he doesnt care that sex is extremely painful for you-------the only thing that matters is that he gets off. If you hurt, it doesn't matter.

I don't have a good track record with guys, but the half way decent ones don't want to hurt you. The good ones actually care about your pleasure too.
 
I couldn't disagree more strongly with @EveHarrington & @C j

We have never met your husband. We have no idea what your marriage vows were. Yet somehow, based off of the telling of one argument, they have somehow extrapolated that your husband not only doesn't love you, but never has! He's been lying to you this whole time! The vows you two made to each other that we have no idea what they were? He lied there, too! :O_o: What???

Could your husband be a liar who doesn't love you and never has? Sure. I would hope not, and there's nothing you've written -in a few short paragraphs- that indicates that to me, but I'm sure it's a possibility in the realm of worst case scenarios.

Could your husband love you profoundly, and always has? Also, yes. Also nothing you've written that would indicate that either.

All I've read about is one fight between you, and several years of both of you trying various solutions to solve a problem in your marriage, which either hasn't worked, or hasn't worked, yet... And is very tied up & complicated by your trauma history. So I really can't disagree more strongly with their pronouncement of his state of mind, motivations for what or why he's done anything, how he feels about you now or in the past, etc., and the conclusions they've drawn from that premise.
 
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I understand that, absolutely.. what about the part where he says refuses to go without sex - in your eyes, that's ok for a husband to say to his wife he supposedly loves?
 
So scared she's shaking... Scared of what? Of losing her marriage? Of losing the man she loves? Of having sex period / is triggered? Is triggered by thinking about her trauma & is having flashbacks to her last relationship? Of pain? Of talking about her trauma? Of his response to her telling him of her trauma? All of the above? Some combo of the above? IDK. I haven't asked her (and no one else has, either, the assumption was automatically made that it has nothing to do with PTSD and everything to do with her husband, and he's a c*nt, who has never loved her, and leave him). Maybe that's the case. But the automatic leap? SMH.
 
Well I agree assumptions have been made but what I took from it is - not good. It's up to the OP to figure it out for herself but I think what I (and others) are saying is that he is a pig for not being understanding about the matter.
 
what about the part where he says refuses to go without sex - in your eyes, that's ok for a husband to say to his wife he supposedly loves?

I think that is as fair to bring to the table as any other aspect of a relationship. By either husband or wife.

I'm not willing to go the rest of my life without __________.
- Children
- A vacation
- Visiting my family
- Pets
- Sex
- My religion
- Eating meat
- Working
- etc.

If it's a component in a marriage? Yes. Absolutely it is something both partners have a right to discuss with the other. There are shite ways to do that, and perfect ways to do that... But just because 1 person is shouting and waving their arms in the air and throwing a tantrum about it? Doesn't mean that having children isn't a valid thing to discuss. Or having sex isn't a valid thing to discuss. Nor that they don't love their partner. It means they're angry, and frustrated. But loving amazing people get angry and frustrated, too, not just abusive pieces of shit.
 
Yes, it's a valid thing to discuss, and I guess it will come back to - does the OP want to be able to have pain free sex with him, and if so, then seeking the appropriate help with achieving that.
 
We've been married almost 10 years. However, I hurt before we were married. (My first marriage was ruined this way-the memories coming thru, though much stronger back then)

He just thought that I was "holding myself" for marriage. Then right from the beginning it hurt. He just figured that it was "dryness" or some other medical problem. Then a few years back 3-4, the memories started coming back. To stay. He was not happy. He hates the idea that he has to deal with the results of some one else.
Did he know you found sex painful before you got married? If he didn't, and it ended your previous marriage (i.e. You knew it would likely be a problem), I can understand him being angry.

There is nothing wrong with him wanting to have sex in his marriage, a healthy sex life is important and asking someone to never express that side of themselves is a big deal. Giving up that part of yourself is also a big deal.

That doesn't mean he gets to force you into something you don't want to do, of course not, but you do both have a responsibility to work on having a mutually satisfying sex life. Can you both go into couples counselling to start communication about intimacy in your relationship in a way that you don't feel scared and he doesn't feel shamed?

Perhaps look at some psychosexual counselling too which can help with exercises that gradually help your sexual responses and can help with the feelings about sex that you've been left with. I guess what I'm saying is there are ways to work through sexual problems that you both need to commit to but blaming and treating him like a monster for wanting intimacy in marriage isn't going to build a strong relationship any more than him putting pressure on you to do something that's so painful will.

If you've been together for 10 years and sex has always been an issue, it's going to take work to resolve, not least because of the shame, anger and resentment that builds up in any long term disagreement.

If you think that sex is never going to be an option for you, that you can't or won't find a way through then you do need to be honest with him so that he can make a decision about whether he wants to stay in a sexless relationship. That's only fair.

Folk can make judgments about how awful someone must be, how selfish, or shallow or even how abusive someone is to leave a relationship because one partner can't or won't meet their needs sexually but sex in partner relationships is a reasonable expectation (even for wheelchair users...).

It's fine for you not to want to have sex ever again if that's how you feel, but in a marriage when you make that decision you're making it for yourself and your partner, and it's ok that he might decide he's not ready to give up that part of his identity.
 
There are also other ways to sexually satisfy a person without actually having sex.
 
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