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  • Acesup
    Member
    • Mar 2024
    • 33

    My wife says I don't understand what most women want. But I'm truly baffled by her attitude against receiving oral

    Hi everybody. I'm a fairly happily married guy, love my wife but our sex life, namely her increasingly being more and more shut down and inhibited sexually to the point she is barely willing to let me do anything that gives me any chance of getting her off has become one of the biggest problems for us in our marriage.

    But lately she hs been making an argument about how all women are sexually and how I don't get what women want sexually that has me completely baffled and speechless.

    So my wife says she has never ever liked a guy going down on her. She has always hated it as long as we have been together and says she never liked it with anybody before me so it is not something I'm doing wrong, she just has a hangup about it. She says it makes her uncomfortable and it doesn't feel good for her. This has been EXTREMELY difficult for me because going down on a woman and getting her off is actually my absolute favorite thing. It is too vanilla to be called a kink but it really is my kink and my fetish and I really have missed it so bad. It is my happy place so to speak and it has been so much harder than I could have imagined dealing with the fact that I will never get to experience doing that to a woman again. It is almost like a mourning as silly as that sounds.

    I could maybe wrap my head around her individually not liking it for whatever reason and that I can't make her change as hard as that has been for me. I get that. She has that right. But now she keeps telling me that most women do not like guys going down on them and that none of her friends like it either and that it is weird and I need to do some research and learn what women want in bed. I'm just kind of speechless listening to this cause like I'm sitting here listening to a woman tell me I don't know what most women really want and I'm thinking to myself I've been with like 60 plus women and you are literally the only person I have ever encountered who doesn't like a guy going down on them. Like I never even thought such a thing was possible before I met her. And yet I'm being told I don't get what women want sexually and how to satisfy them sexually. And when I told her she is the only person I've ever met that doesn't like it her response was that I've been with some trashy women then. Like that felt like kind of a personal insult to me a little bit.

    That's got me all in my head and confused. Like that just doesn't seem to jive with logic and common sense.

    Like have I been wrong and missing something this whole time. Is my wife really right that women in general don't like a guy going down on them. Like how have I never encountered any woman that wasn't satisfied by me doing that and yet her and she says all her female friends all say they are totally not into it with anybody. I mean I get that she individually might not be into it for whatever reason but is that really common among women to not like it. I can't imagine so but I just need somebody to tell me I'm not losing my mind here or been doing something to women they didn't like all my life.

  • Wednesday L.F.
    Veteran Member
    • Oct 2020
    • 362

    Hello. If I may, I think you may be focusing on the wrong things. What “most” women like has no bearing on what your wife likes. It sounds like you’re both trying to defend your desires and choices as saying your preferences are common and should be respected. But boundaries should be respected whether they’re common or not.

    It’s sad that your desires don’t align, but couples can and do overcome that sort of thing with open, respectful dialogue. I can understand where you’re coming from. My husband is not especially fond of getting oral either, and I find it a bummer.

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    • jns
      Assistant Admin
      • Mar 2010
      • 8398

      Originally posted by Acesup
      Hi everybody. I'm a fairly happily married guy, love my wife but our sex life, namely her increasingly being more and more shut down and inhibited sexually to the point she is barely willing to let me do anything that gives me any chance of getting her off has become one of the biggest problems for us in our marriage.

      But lately she hs been making an argument about how all women are sexually and how I don't get what women want sexually that has me completely baffled and speechless.

      So my wife says she has never ever liked a guy going down on her. She has always hated it as long as we have been together and says she never liked it with anybody before me so it is not something I'm doing wrong, she just has a hangup about it. She says it makes her uncomfortable and it doesn't feel good for her. This has been EXTREMELY difficult for me because going down on a woman and getting her off is actually my absolute favorite thing. It is too vanilla to be called a kink but it really is my kink and my fetish and I really have missed it so bad. It is my happy place so to speak and it has been so much harder than I could have imagined dealing with the fact that I will never get to experience doing that to a woman again. It is almost like a mourning as silly as that sounds.

      I could maybe wrap my head around her individually not liking it for whatever reason and that I can't make her change as hard as that has been for me. I get that. She has that right. But now she keeps telling me that most women do not like guys going down on them and that none of her friends like it either and that it is weird and I need to do some research and learn what women want in bed. I'm just kind of speechless listening to this cause like I'm sitting here listening to a woman tell me I don't know what most women really want and I'm thinking to myself I've been with like 60 plus women and you are literally the only person I have ever encountered who doesn't like a guy going down on them. Like I never even thought such a thing was possible before I met her. And yet I'm being told I don't get what women want sexually and how to satisfy them sexually. And when I told her she is the only person I've ever met that doesn't like it her response was that I've been with some trashy women then. Like that felt like kind of a personal insult to me a little bit.

      That's got me all in my head and confused. Like that just doesn't seem to jive with logic and common sense.

      Like have I been wrong and missing something this whole time. Is my wife really right that women in general don't like a guy going down on them. Like how have I never encountered any woman that wasn't satisfied by me doing that and yet her and she says all her female friends all say they are totally not into it with anybody. I mean I get that she individually might not be into it for whatever reason but is that really common among women to not like it. I can't imagine so but I just need somebody to tell me I'm not losing my mind here or been doing something to women they didn't like all my life.
      It seems that nothing has changed over the last year (from going through your past posts and the responses.) I'm not sure what I could add. Your wife has created a situation that she is comfortable with. The two of you seem to have incompatible sexual desires.
      I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
      ...
      Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

      From a speech by Patrick Henry on March 23, 1775 at St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia

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      • Jessica1801
        Member
        • Feb 2025
        • 14

        Read through my post about low sex drive. She maybe in a similar situation.

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        • Jessica1801
          Member
          • Feb 2025
          • 14

          Pay attention to parts where others have talked about focusing on the pleasure portion. If you are going down on here with the goal of giving her an orgasm and she doesn't it maybe to much pressure.

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