Hi IMs,
I need your help.
I have a long list of adverse life experiences including mostly sexual abuse from multiple people throughout most of my life.
I have had PTSD and other mental health issues for as long as I can remember.
I became a mum as a teen and went on to be a fulltime carer for my special needs daughter.
Married a wonderful man and had my second child at 22.
When I met my husband I had never experienced a loving consensual sexual relationship and didn't know how.
Unknowingly, I went on to continue the behaviours I was taught.
My husband being a beautiful man who only wanted to make me happy followed my lead so to speak. Not knowing it was damaging behaviours but thinking it was a quirk or kink of mine.
It's taken many years for me to come to terms with my history and have only recently realized that by doing these things I have been re traumatizing myself.
I have been completely honest about this with my husband and he as always has been very supportive.
Here comes the problem.
We have tried every possible way to improve our sexual behaviours and bring romance/love into our sex lives. We both see psychologists and are openly talking about it all.
Now I know I'm going to receive some very judgemental comments and trust me when I say I hate that I feel this way and am trying desperately to come to some form of a solution where neither of us end up hurt or resentful.
I've come to realise I have never had the opportunity/ability to explore or even begin to understand my sexuality. I have this overwhelming want/need to find myself in that way. I can't seem to move past it. As hard as I try.
How can I possibly turn the man that I love, who loves me despite my past and all my flaws and tell him that I need to explore in this way?
Tell me IMs what do I do?
2 Replies
I think if you have been honest this far, then you can be honest moving forward. If your unsure of yourown sexuality & feel that you need to explore it, you cqn include him as much or as little as you like. He sounds like a good, caring, understanding guy
You need to make a choice, explore your sexuality and leave him for someone who is at the life stage where he is enough for them or love and accept life the way it is with this beautiful man in your life.
Be careful what you wish for because some things can’t be undone.