“My wife and I have a phenomenal relationship for the most part, but there are most days when I'd just rather masturbate than put the effort into sex. Our sex life just got more and more infrequent as we've been together (11 years total, married for 7) and her lack of initiating (which we've discussed and she's done minimal about) just made me stop trying.

And now that we are 'trying' to have our second kid, I'd still rather masturbate than have sex because I know the only reason she's showing interest is because we want another kid.”

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