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Relationship Help!!

Discussion in 'Off-topic Discussion' started by Deleted Account, Sep 18, 2020.

  1. Hi guys. I’m in need of some guidance. My boyfriend has come to realise his porn addiction (4-5 months ago) and has begun a reboot in a relationship. We are still intimate throughout this. He communicates that his love tank is empty, that despite reaching climax 1-3 times a day he finds our sex life boring, fantasises about other girls, doesn’t feel wanted by me. I’m very confused. We have started trying that only I initiate intimacy. When I do initiate he feels fantastic for a few hours before retreating into a ‘waiting for the next’ time to happen. If I don’t initiate fast enough, then he will initiate and then say that because I didn’t interpret his need, it therefore doesn’t count towards himfeeling loved by me. I understand wanting to feel wanted by me so I do my best to fulfil this. I have expressed that I feel like a substitute for pornography to which he agrees (usually when angry). But then doesn’t want to look at ways he could improve in his attitude or in the way we come together intimately.
    I feel like a failure and then on the other hand, angry because I feel like I give a ‘service’ and that we don’t build intimacy, just please him.
    Any feedback/advise on what to do from here would be appreciated.
     
  2. ShadyPerson

    ShadyPerson Fapstronaut

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    There's a separate section on this forum for partners of nofappers, but I'll answer anyways.

    I'm not a relationship councillor, so I can't give you a definite answer. In fact your situation sounds so though that that might be excatly what you need: professional help. However there was one part in particular that I'd like to comment on.

    By what you have told in this post it seems like you truly care about him and are doing your best to please him at times even in things in which it seems to me that the problem isn't as much your behaviour as it is his low self-esteem. Overall you seem like a good supportive girlfriend. So while I don't know the whole story or you as a person, you are not a failure. Just because you can't single handedly make your boyfriend's problems vanish doesn't make you any less of a good person. It only means that you are a human and as such can only help and support, but never fix someone's life for them if they are (temporarily) unable to do their part of their recovery. You are good, worthy and doing well. Keep up the good work.
     
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