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Hi, I'm new to AB but a previous question has prompted me to write one of my own.
Basically I am in a great relationship, I love my wife, but there is one problem. Our sex drives differ greatly. Mine being a lot greater than hers. I'm lucky if I get sex a few times a month.
I don't want to end the relationship, but sometimes I get very frustrated and this causes issues in the relationship.
I've heard about people having nsa relationships and am thinking of this as a possiblity. My questions is this - how do I go about meeting like minded women? Are there any avenues I can go down? The only one that comes to mind is dogging, but that's a bit sleazy for my liking (although each to their own).
Sorry to seem like a total git, but I want to preserve our relationship, and feel that such an outlet will mean less conflict.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Hi, can I first start by asking what NSA is?
I am picking up that you wish to continue your relationship with your wife but maybe fulfill your sexual needs elsewhere?
If this is the case (NSA clarification required) then this is something you BOTH need to consider seriously. Do you think your wife and your relationship could handle the strain of such a set up? How do you think *you* could handle telling your wife you're off out for the evening to while uou fulfill these needs, knowing she is at home awaiting your return? Can you try to turn the situation around so that it is her wanting this to happen, how do you think you would feel knowing she is with another man?
You need to talk to your wife about how you feel about your sex life, and maybe try ways to change how it is right now. Ask her why her sex drive has diminished somewhat. Have you children that are maybe running her ragged and she's just tired, therefore making love to you is the last thing on her mind? Could it be that it has got into a predictable routine (no offence intended)?
There are other avenues for both of you to explore before you go down the route you are talking about. There are many sex therapists these days and they *can* help you as a couple.
If it turns out that your wife is agreeable to your suggestion, then I guess there are plenty of escort agents available to you. Prostitution is less sleezy as it was and if you go through an established agency you will find that the women are tested for STDs and paperwork can be provided to you. These women are as normal as myself and doing it purely for the extra/only income.
I am very interested to know the outcome, if you don't mind letting us know?
I can understand your problem, but the greater problem, is if you go ahead and meet other women, your wife will find out, you may be able to keep it a secret for a time, but not indefinately. there must be an underlying cause for this, birth of a child, age, I don't know your situation. Have you talked to her about it.
However, if you want to go ahead, there must be plenty of sites out there, just google them.
I think you need to accept that men and women are very different- we don't have that MUST SPREAD SEED feeling that you constantly have.Sorry to be unsymapthetic, but that's what w****ing is for. If you have NSA sex with someone else your wife will ultimately find out, and leave you. Then you will have no sex every month.
Alternatively you could find a nice man to have sex with- he would have about the same sex drive as you.
Scarlett - i think that masterbation is a poor subsitute for sex, I'm sure many people would agree. I've got a higher sex drive than my boyfriend and I crave the intimacy more than the actual sex.
I'm not sure it's the same for men, but this is the second post you've mentioned men having a 'need' to have sex while women don't. I think that the vast majority of women would disagree with you there, and probably the same amount of men. You can't make generalisations like that about sex, this is truely a case in life when everyone is different.
Jonny7 - you need to talk to her, but also try and work out if anything has happened recently to make her sex drive take a dip. If she's always been this way then you might just have to realise that you can't change her. Try and ignore your urges for a while and don' ask her for sex or makes moves on her. Rest assured, she know that there's a problem and if you keep mentioning sex and bringing it up she's going to feel uncomfortable and threatened. Maybe try having a romantic night in, some wine, lovely food, shared bath or something and just take time to be together and then *not have sex*.
Don't know if this is relevent, but, When we got married (my husband and I) a very elderly man that we knew took my husband to one side and said "Sonny, if you want to make love to her on friday, you have to start working at it on Sunday morning."
I don't mean to be rude, but I'm just wondering if whether this problem is actually a symptom and not a cause. Barring all the usual such as illness, sleepless nights with a new baby being postnatal, antenatal or prenatal, etc...it could just be that she is feeling a little unloved.
I don't think that this "NSA" is ever solution. It is very sad to think that this is how modern relationships think they can sort themselves out. Loving someone is about putting their needs and them first every single time.
Introducing a third party, however "NSA" is very, very wrong for all three of you; for your wife, I think it would mean rejection and betrayal and possible contact with STDs; for you it will mean time away from your partner when you should be with her, a time of juggling and hiding, and possibly lying, and contact with STDs; and also for whoever it is who you go with who feels so little for herself that she is able to just sleep around with any tom D*** or harry.
It'll mess with your head, steer clear. SOme people are alone in this world, you have someone who loves you and all you can contemplate is how you don't feel you get 'enough'. Shame.
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