My husband refuses sex saying he’s worried my teenage daughter will overhear us
DEAR DEIDRE: TO put it bluntly, our sex life is almost non-existent as my husband says he’s worried my teenage daughter will overhear us. We have been married for two years. I am 33, he’s 36. My daughter is from an earlier relationship and she is 16. Our sex life used to be exciting, often going […]
DEAR DEIDRE: TO put it bluntly, our sex life is almost non-existent as my husband says he’s worried my teenage daughter will overhear us.
We have been married for two years. I am 33, he’s 36. My daughter is from an earlier relationship and she is 16.
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Our sex life used to be exciting, often going away at weekends to relax. But that is an expensive method to be able to make love to my husband.
I have a high sex drive but we are lucky if it is twice a month now. We both work different hours, so finding time for each other is incredibly hard. Nights we are together, my 16-year-old daughter is usually home, too.
It has got to figure-pointing and blaming each other. My daughter was at her friend’s house last weekend but, instead of grabbing the opportunity to go to bed, my husband had a bottle of wine and didn’t speak to me all evening.
How do I fix our rubbish sex life?
DEIDRE SAYS: The sex problems can sometimes hide deeper relationship issues. He isn’t jumping at the chance to have sex when you are alone, so you need to talk and listen to how one another really sees this dilemma.
Could you sound-proof your bedroom?
Or does your higher sex drive make him feel he has lost his?
My e-leaflet Differing Sex Drives? will help you sort this out together.