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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 john fenton asks

Q: my girl how has lost all intrest in sex she says she loves me and blames it on pressure.

my girl how has lost all intrest in sex she says she loves me and blames it on pressure and the death of her father which was two years ago.how do i approach her about it as any time i try it ends in a fight..please help...

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7/ 7/09 10:16pm

I have to completely disagree with the last post. relationships are a 2 way street. Its a give and take situation. First off you need to face her with the question of what type of relationship she wants to have with you. 

Ask her this:

 

Do you love me? She will undoutedly say Yes.

The problem here is that you can love some one as a friend, brother, sister, or whatever.

Are you in love with me?  This is by itself different in the sense of does she go mush when she thinks about you which is the entrance to a desire for physical touching. If she doesnt quite understand then ask her "Do you think about me?, How does it make you feel?" If its anything but mushy gooey, then Id run.

 

Pat

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7/ 7/09 1:28pm

Just my opinion here. Do you love her? I mean really enjoy her, her company, the things she does, thinks, knows, likes?

If you want to help her and you believe she means it when she says she loves you, then you need to back off of sex completely for a while, as long as it takes, or as long as you can put up with it.

 

She's communicating as much as she can right now that something is bothering her and you need to accept that and just be there for her in a non sexual way.

Talk to her, takes walks, go places, do things, enjoy each others company and be there for her if she wants to talk, whatever she wants to talk about, all without trying to be intimate. Maybe she would like to talk with a therapist if she can't talk to anyone else.

 

Where that leads is hard to say, one or both may move on, or the sexual part will reappear. Right now, she doesn't want that, for you the decision is, is she worth staying there that way?

She is a person and cannot be argued into intimacy, that leads away, not toward.

 

Have a little fun, make her happy, see where that goes. Fighting will lead to separation, you can't argue someone into sex, they won't enjoy it and will become more resistant.

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7/ 7/09 9:25pm

if I may throw in my female perspective, my husband has always suffered with depression, it is mostly managed but I can always tell when he's fighting to 'stay above water' and the worst thing I can do is suggest sex! It has always been difficult when I want to be intimate but can clearly tell that would be another exhausting task for him, I have gotten my feelings hurt more than once so we've made a sort of code when we are feeling frisky which is nonverbal but is also not so blatent that it would hurt or embarrass the other. One of the first things I noticed about depression is the lack of sex drive, as is one of the largest side effects in most depression meds. The best thing I can do when he feels like this is a cuddle session, sometimes it leads to more, sometimes I learn that we really don't snuggle enough. Good luck and hang in there with her!

 

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By john fenton— Last Modified: 11/17/10, First Published: 07/07/09