
← Dad Starting Over2 oct. · 18 min
Sexless Marriage Inevitable? She Sold Her "Hot Girl" Clothes
A woman posted that her husband was "visibly and audibly sad" watching her sell off her pre-baby hot girl clothes. She thought it was funny. The internet piled on him for being a pig. Every married man in a dead bedroom read that and felt it in his gut.
The woman he married was a sexy, fun, feminine creature. Then the kids came, and that side of her got boxed up and sold on Facebook Marketplace. Nobody asked him if he was okay with the trade.
I've been working with men in sexless marriages for over a decade and this is one of the most common ways it starts. Not a fight. Not an affair. A quiet decision she makes on her own that a whole part of her is finished, and he just has to live with it.
In this one I get into:
- Why the anxious guy always gets told "go F yourself" when he asks for the same thing she asked of him
- The shotgun house — the clearest way I know to explain what happens to eroticism after kids
- The difference between on-hold and gone for good, and why every husband is really only afraid of one of them
- Responsive desire, and why most women in long-term marriage never feel it start on its own
- The blunt conversation she owes him if she's actually done
I also give the moms their due here. I raised three little kids mostly on my own after my divorce. The homework, the house, wiping butts, all of it. You do not feel like a sexy creature when that is your whole world. I get it. It still doesn't cancel out the other thing.
He's not a monster for wanting his wife. He's a human being.
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