Dr.
Andrew D. Atwood
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Social Worker,
Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and
Family Therapy
A
Word of Caution: Hopeful Solutions is laden with the explicit
sexual language that is needed to adequately address the
issues that are inhibiting you from having a more fulfilling sexual
relationship. While intimate subjects are tastefully addressed,
the use of explicit sexual language
is common throughout.
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Not
enough sex driving
you nuts?
Get things moving before it is too late!
Get
rid of the confusion!
Break the gridlock!
Figure out what the REAL problem is!
Use this frustrating dilemma to actually strengthen your relationship!
Yes,
now you can actually use this “Traveler’s Guide”
to create the healthy dialogue you’ve struggled to
have between the two of you. (There is “a method to my madness”
which will help the two of you to share more deeply. Scroll down
for more information.)
Both
of you can come together around this sound, practical,
and professional advice, and in so doing you will be taking s
to get your sexless marriage moving faster!
“
. . . I can’t continue to live like this
anymore . . ..”
How many emails have I received from people who are incredibly
frustrated with their partner, with themselves, and with their
relationship?
Read these e-mails, as I have, and listen to these wonderful
people.
I’m
certain you can identify with their struggles. Here are 6 examples
of the emails I’ve received.
The
issues are often pretty clear, as when someone writes me, and
shares that his wife “lost her job 5 months ago
and is having a hard time finding a new one. She is feeling down
and depressed and is putting our relationship aside. She is also
only into her feelings, and our sex life in the past 6 months
has gone from bad, to worse. There is hardly any passion or playfulness
left. Any advice?” Well, believe it or not, this
is a pretty easy one. Personal “emotional and cognitive”
challenges can slow you right down, affecting your mood about
sexual desire.
Relationships
that lack satisfying sex are commonly coupled with depression.
What compounds the challenge is that the medications prescribed
to treat the depression actually diminish sexual desire.
Here
is another situation that is pretty clear. “Nearly
a
year
ago, my wife had a complete hysterectomy at the age of 30. Now
she says she has no sex drive at all. Maybe I am being a self-centered
jerk, but, I am still human and I still have wants and needs.
This is starting to put a lot of stress on me. Can anything be
done about this before it ruins our relationship? Help!”
There
are any number of physical challenges that face men, but women
are especially vulnerable because of the complexity of their arousal
system. It involves “hardware” as well as “software”
and challenges with either can result no desire for sex.
It
gets harder when “family enmeshment,” as we Marriage
and Family Therapists refer to it, gets involved. “My
boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years and we have a child
together. He lived with his mother until I got my first apartment,
and then he moved in with me. Gradually he started to spend more
time with his friends, and less with me. Our sexual relationship
just shriveled up to nothing. He wouldn’t talk about it,
so I told him to leave. He went home to his mother’s. We
have worked a lot of our problems out since then, but he won’t
move back in with me. What should I do?”
Enmeshment,
alliances, power struggles, identity confusion, lousy communication
. . . there are a lot of “family dynamics” that can
show up in the bedroom, or keep you out of the bedroom!
Sometimes
the issues get complex and layered one on top of another. “Right
before we got married I started experiencing a lack of sexual
interest. As we have stayed married it has declined to nothing.
My husband insisted that I go into therapy about 5 years ago to
deal with this. He has an extremely high
sex drive, has always been VERY interested in erotica and now
is, I think, addicted to pornography. As time moved on, I always
felt that he was trying to force me or coerce me or scare me into
being more sexual with him. He thinks the greatest intimacy comes
from sex, and I don’t think like that. He feels trapped
and like he is desperate to escape. He believes he can find someone
more sexually compatible. What can I do to reach out to him? How
can I help him? I try to listen to his anger and let him know
that I understand how he feels. I want to be supportive. Most
of all, I don’t want to lose him, but I am afraid it is
too late. Any suggestions would be so appreciated.”
Wow . . . I had to think about this one for a week before I wrote
her back! The very stability of a loving relationship can be upset
by incompatible appetites for sex.
There
are a lot of complicated issues surrounding one’s “arousal
threshold” and “orgasmic threshold” that all
mix together under one heading: “the control of sexual desire.”
Then
there are the special issues that pop up, such as this.
“All of my past partners were always happy to proceed
in oral sex. Whenever my new partner pleasures me with oral sex
he can’t get an erection. What is this about? No one every
had this problem with me before?” So she has some
challenges and he has some challenges, and as is always the case,
the relationship suffers. In fact, more than half of the men,
and twenty-five percent of the women report through my research
that their marriage is in serious trouble because of their sexual
challenges.
But
you are here, and you are doing something about the challenging
relationship in which you find yourself. You are not helpless!
You are taking s!
That
is a great sign of hope!
Together,
with my expert advice, and your serious effort, change is possible!
I’ve
spent over 60,000 hours with people over the last 30 years, and
a lot of those people have struggled with a lousy sexual relationship.
You see, I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified
Social Worker in Michigan, and the co-founder of the Fountain
Hill Center for Counseling and Consultation. Today, I work with
11 other people in a multi-disciplinary group where we are all
trying to help people to take the next step on their journey of
life.
“Helping
people to get along,
and to get ahead in life.”
That’s
my mission. In order to be helpful to people who are struggling
with a lack of sexual desire in their relationship, I have created
this website. Truthfully, I am the “content expert”
and my son, Dave, is the Webmaster. It is a great team effort
here; my right-brain and his left-brain! There are others involved
as well, but you can check that out on your own by going to our
Home Page.
Here
is the “method to my madness” that will help the two
of you to dialogue at a deeper level about the very personal and
touchy subject of your sexual relationship.
The
people who visit this website are about evenly split, 50% are
men, and 50% are women. I find that to be rather interesting,
and refreshing.
While
both men and women come to this site, it is predominantly the
women who are able to talk about the sensitive and personal issues
involved in their sexual challenges.
We
all know that women tend to go for therapy more often than do
men. Women can talk about their feelings more easily.
Just
go to the Discussion
Forum on our website and look at the number of entries that
have been posted by women compared to the number posted by men!
Women are way more comfortable talking about this stuff …
but not always.
I
spoke on the phone last week with a woman I’ve never met,
nor will I ever meet. She was on her cell phone talking with me
from inside a closet at her parent’s house. We talked about
her relationship with her partner and she said, “Oh, I’m
blushing…”
The
challenges you both are facing are probably very difficult to
talk about… but if you don’t, change won’t happen.
I’ve
created a tool that will help you two to talk with each other.
My
eBook is written around a metaphor… a road trip that the
two of you are taking. Yes, it is the journey of life that you
are on.
This
literary technique gives me the opportunity to use some humor,
some symbols that guys can grasp, and some language that the two
of you can share without getting too embarrassed. By publishing
on through the Inernet like this I am able to use common language
to talk about common subject. So, YES, all of this is “sexually
explicit.”
The
“Table of Contents” is six pages long. Here are just
some of the topics covered.
Who else
is out there traveling through “the land of sexless marriage
problems?”
Anxious?
Of course you are! This is an adventure!
Anxiety
is feedback on how well you are driving with your partner.
Let’s
look at your driving record – personal history, sexual history,
and relationship history.
Where
are you now, and where are you going on this journey?
Here’s
a Pocket Map that will show you where you might be off track.
Who are
you traveling with? Who is your partner? The works of Myers and
Briggs can help you to know.
You and
your partner are different. You enjoy foreplay differently. Your
engine gets turned on differently. You have different attitudes
toward oral sex. Lots of differences.
Substance
abuse, pornography, masturbation, sex addictions, anger…
all might be making it difficult to travel together.
How about
the travel games you play, and your different styles of “driving?”
Are you
test-driving, leasing, or owning? Each is a different level of
commitment.
How well
tuned-up are each of you? If you have mechanical problems you’ll
have a break down.
Have enough
gas, enough energy for the trip?
Oops,
a real breakdown. Where do you go for roadside service?
On a life-long
trip, how do you stay psyched up and not bored?
What are
those gauges on the dashboard? Your arousal threshold, orgasmic
threshold, and your subjective emotional responses can help you
to stay on the road.
Some of
the common problems encountered on any road trip, such as not
being able to turn over the engine, questions of gender identity,
female “mechanical” problems, his struggle to keep
it up, popping the clutch with premature ejaculation, etc.
How to
spend your time while traveling together – talking, growing,
being silent, and giving road-head!
What to
do when traveling together sucks (or doesn’t) and you aren’t
happy any longer.
Picking
up hitch hikers – 7 kinds of affairs of the heart and genitals.
Falling
asleep at the wheel – benign and hostile neglect.
Necessary
pit stops to relieve yourself.
Getting
lost on the journey, and finding your way back home.
Running
out of gas for the journey. Are you too pooped to put out?
Unexpected
problems that really stop you – mental, emotional, physical,
relational and cultural breakdowns.
Electrical
problems – when the spark is gone.
The point
system – getting busted by the cops for bad behavior.
Tips for
driving through bad weather – some of them are obvious,
and some of them might seem kinky.
What to
do when you get car sick, or just plain sick physically.
Crashes
– like when you erection fails you, or romantic interludes
fail, or when you work real hard and can’t come.
Dead ends
– abuse, either physical or emotional.
The role
of a regular 3,000-mile maintenance check-up.
Cruising
along and visiting scenic overlooks – everything is beautiful!
Marking
and celebrating your progress.
There
are 50 Chapters in Hopeful Solutions for Your Sexless Marriage,
and as you can see, they all hang together as “A Traveler’s
Guide.” Makes it a little silly at points, but it is a way
of working with a subject that all too often makes people anxious.
Silly stuff is easier to talk over than heavy serious stuff.
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After
three decades of clinical work, reading the best books and research
articles, and after talking with people for hour-upon-hour, I
have taken the information I’ve learned and the wisdom I
have accumulated and I have packaged it all together in an eBook
titled,
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I offer you in Hopeful Solutions for Your Sexless Marriage.
What
I have written is Hopeful, Frank, Informative, Sexually Explicit,
and . . . believe it or not . . . fairly Humorous. You’re
on a Road Trip, remember?
If
you lose your sense of humor about all this, the shame and anxiety
will kill you!
Is
your relationship stuck on the
side of the road?
Are
you full of frustration, awkwardness, anxiety, shame, and confusion?
Remember,
don’t lose your sense of humor! If you can’t laugh
at yourself you will surely suffer from serious-itis!
With
some help, your relationship
could be like this!
Yes,
your situation can change!
Believe
me, I know that you might doubt my optimism, but I have seen people
change, and I have seen people grow to love, and make love with
each other in new and life changing ways.
Just
look at this email! “My husband and I seldom have
sex. I crave for his affection. It’s almost as if he finds
sex sinful. I have to ask all the time. He doesn’t kiss,
nor does he show me any affection. I don’t feel connected
anymore. In fact, I’m not sure if I want to stay married
to him. He claims that he loves me, but can’t seem to find
the time for intimacy. I’m lucky if we have sex once a month.
What should I do?”
“But,
what should I do?”
1)
Don’t give up hope! So often in life we face
a crisis, we work and work to find a solution that will bring
us relief, but it isn’t until we are ready to give up
(or, until we have given up!) that some miraculous answer comes
from somewhere out of the blue!
2)
Stop right where you are, take a deep breath, and get centered.
I’ll give you some tips on how you can do that. The more
anxious you get, the worse the problem is.
3)
Work TODAY with the advice I share in my
e-book. Read along and “reflect and write.”
Look at who you each are, journal some, and get your head straight
about the challenges you each are facing.
4)
Use my material to get some healthy dialogue going
within your own head, and between the two of you. I know from
decades of experience that it is easier for two people to talk
together about what is in my eBook, than it is to look at each
other – eye-to-eye – and talk about oral sex, (for
example). I’ve tried to include just about every subject
in my eBook, so you two can talk about “it.”
Don’t
misunderstand me – I am working hard to foster more intimacy
between the two of you. We are after “making love,”
not just “screwing.”
“Okay,
so what if I don’t find your eBook to be helpful. Then what?"
Great
question!
I
know that you have struggled for some time with the challenges
that have pushed you to the side of the road. None of this just
popped up yesterday, did it?
So, yes, you’ve worked at addressing the challenges before
you… but I am convinced that you could do more, and better.
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The content
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The way
I have written it is more entertaining than typical sex manuals
that tend to be rather clinical and dry, or just full of pictures
about positions. I’m after what creates no desire for sex.
The fact
is that if either of you, or both of you read and talk, talk and
read, back and forth… you will develop a greater depth of
intimacy around a subject that is very sensitive to most people.
If your partner won’t read… you can read out loud!
And I
simply know this works!
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“I’m
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have been nearly void of sex. For the past several years, I have
given up initiating sex, as my advances were rejected the majority
of the time. Which would drive me totally nuts and make me very
angry, besides making me feel totally undesirable. I feel miserable
and sometimes depressed. I know I would be a much happier person
if I had a normal sex life, and it would be easier for me to show
non-sexual affection. Please tell me your thoughts on this situation.”
Or,
are you already like this? After all, someone did actually write
this letter to me.
And
believe, me, I have had others who have challenged me to think
and feel right along with them as they struggle with shame, control,
anxiety, fear, guilt, anger, and utter confusion.
This
all can be incredibly difficult for both of you. But remember
. . .
There
is hope!
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Discover
how you are stuck, why you are stuck, and then take practical
steps to get moving!
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Pages of Practical Advice that will help you to get UNstuck!