Me (M22) and my girlfriend (F22) are in a loving but sexless relationship

Oh I was being genuine, which is why I said I didn't want him to feel attacked. In my opinion, as I view the world (and how everyone views the world will obviously be different, I'd never claim to be "right" about literally anything) the way he feels about sex seems like he could use therapy, just like she could for her trauma. It sounds a little addictive to me, based on the men I've known, none of them cared about sex that much. To the point they'd ask their girlfriend about prostitution. That seems very unwell to me and I was expressing genuine concern for that situation. There's not a problem with wanting to have more sex, but there's a massive problem with pushing someone who has deep trauma, and asking a person with trauma about prostitution. Can you imagine how bad that made her feel for having trauma that someone else did to her? I can imagine that's terrible for her, which is why my overall suggestion was to break up because he's placing his sexual needs over her trauma. Whether its his right or not isn't the question, I just think they shouldn't be together at that point. She needs someone who is more patient and has less sexual desires, because plenty of people don't care about it that much. This guy isn't listening to consent because he wants more sex. That's his prerogative but she shouldn't be put through his pushiness when he could move on and find someone who is more open to sex.

My point of view comes from feeling sympathetic to someone with sexual trauma and what all of this means to the person with the trauma. Your point of view comes from his perspective, the man with sexual needs. So obviously we're not going to agree, but I do thank you for being civil whilst disagreeing with me, because often times people just get in shouting matches on here. I'll leave it at this, but this is all just my perspective coming from someone who also has sexual trauma, like the girlfriend does, and my partner was overwhelmingly patient and loving for me, respecting me and my emotional needs, which resulted in a very healthy and mutual sex life later on. I hope the same for that girl. Patience is clearly what she needs, and he re-aggravates her healing progress every time he's pushy. I can imagine if I was her, the escort question would have thrown me for a loop. I hope I explained myself a bit better this time, because I don't want to think of myself as judgmental when I give advice/different perspectives than the OP or other commenters have.

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