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I have been divorced since 1991, my ex and I are still good friends, he wants to get back together, but I have NO interest in sex, not just with him not at all. I also do not want to move I like my house(mess that it is). I am happy the way things are. Do a lot of people loose their sex drive?
Posted on 07/13/08, 10:07 am
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Reply #1 - 07/14/08  2:18am
" stress, depression, and certain types of medication can lower sex drives. it sounds like stress in your case, which is making you want to continue the way things are now, and resent change. change only brings more stress, when youre already over stressed.

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Reply #2 - 07/15/08  12:25pm
" I am so freaking bored with sex, I am like "what's the freaking point?" I have no desire for sex of any kind, and have not had any for a long time. It is below the bottom of my priority list, and I get bored hearing about other people's sexual desires, I think, my god, what the heck? "
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Reply #3 - 07/15/08  9:20pm
" yeah I'm pretty stressed out and on a lot of meds, but i just hate the thought of sex, turns my stomach. Thanks for hug....dreamer "
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Reply #4 - 07/16/08  9:36pm
" Ditto. I was briefly married. Long story, but essentially he is mentally ill and a drug addict. Everyone wants him to get better, but unfortunately he seems to be getting worse.

I do not suffer from depression. I am not medicated. My testosterone levels are normal and are monitored by a doctor. There is no reason for me to have a low sex drive. But honestly, I have not been interested in sex since I was a teenager. During my 20s, my interest in sex plummeted. For the past year, my libido has been exactly zero.

A large part of it has to do with the terribly frightening marriage I was in, a marriage that almost literally killed me, that would have killed me had I not gotten out of it early. But part of it is just the way I am. Celibacy and low libido is part of my life story. It was always going to be part of my life story, even if that particular marriage had not come along. "
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Reply #5 - 12/04/08  7:47am
" oh well still no interested, friends don't understand how i can feel this way. There just is no desire period...... "
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Reply #6 - 12/05/08  10:35pm
" I have been on my own for several years and after a very tramatic relationship a few years ago I have no desire for sex or intimacy. If I think about it I feel sick. I don't want anyone slobering and pawing all over me. I have peace when I laydown and have no problem without a man in my life. "
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Reply #7 - 12/12/08  11:49pm
" Dreamer,

People who have sex drives have trouble understanding people who don't have sex drives, and vice versa.

I understand what it's like not to have a sex drive, because that's the way I am, too! "
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