camille65
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Joined: 7/11/2007 From: Austin Texas Status: offline
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I didn't feel like reading through 5 pages of replies (sorry!), so my post is only going off the OP. For 18 years I was married to a very vanilla man, I got married young and without realizing just how important it was to have matched sexual needs. I honestly thought that eventually he would come around to my way of thinking and to my needs. Looking back I can easily see the selfishness on my end. And I can see now how unfair it was to him to expect that he magically become a dominant and sexually adventurous person. I did try though. I tried to teach him and sometimes I tried to manipulate him but jeez it's awfully hard to top from the bottom if there is no Top lol. The end result was a lot of resentment on both sides. I was utterly unfullfilled both sexually and emotionally, even now I'm not sure what he was but for sure he was not happy. Yes I filed for divorce (there was a LOT more than unfilled needs going on by that point) and finally found my life. He also finally found his, with a perfectly ordinary woman that makes him happy. 'You' just can't force someone into a role that doesn't fit, not and expect them to be happy in life. If she is wholly unwilling to meet your side of needs, then I think it unfair to try and keep pushing her. Sometimes, I wish I'd known about things like checklists before I got married. Maybe if I saw it in black/white I would have seen earlier that severely unmatched sexual needs don't often meet in the middle it would have turned out differently.
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