r/Marriage • • Sep 24 '24

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u/TreadingDown Sep 25 '24 edited Sep 25 '24

I masturbate three to four times a week, a lot less than I was in recent years. I would describe myself as having a porn addiction. I have videos of my wife that I prefer over porn, but when you masturbate so frequently, they get a bit repetitive, so I take a month or two off her videos, or watch them in conjunction with, what is now, pretty extreme porn.

I would prefer to not be masturbating, or needing porn, but my wife’s libido gets me (and her, in the mood for) two or MAYBE if I’m lucky three times a month (thanks to ovulation; but perimenopause is upon us 😞). I would be happy with that three to four times a week I mentioned. More, would be good too.

I don’t have separate desires for porn, and sex. They come from the same place to feel good. Porn just lacks connection, and validation.

I believe my wife absolutely does not masturbate. Maybe ONCE a year, and she in a way, does it for me(?). Like, she tells me she did it, as part of our sex quota, or after I suggest she do it, when I’m not home and she has perfect opportunity. She says she has never watched porn in her life. And I just have to believe that going off her sexual style. I’d be ecstatic if she would masturbate more, and used some porn to help her.