Hello everybody,
Like SteveO says, I should introduce myself. I am from the eastern half of Canada I am a happily married mid 50’s male, married to a woman 15 years my Junior. I sometimes think that I married my mid-age crisis
. But we have been married over 10 years now and are still each other’s best friends. We have had our share of ups and downs over years, but we have survived and are still as much in love as we ever were. But, its our sex life that really needs work. At first things were fine, well, maybe not great, but certainly not bad
. The years and a couple of events have led us to a point where our sex-life is essentially non-existant. She is still responsive, but is hesitant to “step over the line”. This is because of past issues in our marriage in which a couple of kids have also played a role. You run after a kid who learned to read before they were 4 years old and another still in diapers who is probably just as smart and at the end of the day eager to go to bed begins to mean going there to sleep!
Anyways, we have talked about improving things over the last few years, but have never really found any appropriate solutions that seemed to work. There is an issue with my size (she says I am too big). It causes her to feel uncomfortable and even pain during sex. This is partly (mainly?) because she does not relax enough, and she is aware of that. Being tense and expecting sex to be uncomfortable or painful has become a self fulfilling prophecy.
Then the idea of pheromones crossed my path a couple of years ago. To be honest, it first interested me because I was considering having an affair. But now, I want that affair to be with my wife. Affairs are far too costly to a marriage unless it is with your partner
. I have seen the fall out too many times in friends lives.
First, I figure I meed TUTH. I think that goes without saying. But I also need her to relax and let her body respond as it wants to sexual stimulation(s). She is fully responsive to foreplay, but go further than that and she tenses up, and that is a wall that needs to come down.
Like I said, we are best friends, and have no intention of splitting up. But we are interested in possible solutions and pheromones seem to be the best one I have seen yet.
So, hopefully that was not TMI
. Any advice as to what I should get?