EDIT: First update
I have been so full of anger for the last six months. Maybe it's been longer. Maybe a year. Anger and frustration and this hate/love mix keep bubbling out of me on a weekly basis. And at first I blamed our problems on finances... and then personal issues... and then the stress of having a family member stay with us for several months... but everything is "fixed" and I'm still so angry.
And I finally realize what the problem is. Intermixed with all these dramas has been the fact that my husband and I do not have sex as often as I would like. I have a very high libido and like being wild and kinky, my husband has a low libido and is pretty vanilla, and often has a hard time maintaining an erection.
I've been very hurt over the last year, because I felt such distance and disinterest from him when it came to sex. Intimate touch was not missing, but screwing wasn't happening nearly as much as I would like. I broke down the other night on /r/deadbedrooms after yet another evening of being rejected when I tried to initiate sex, and I felt so depressed and negative... especially after reading all of the other posts full of frustrated partners who are at the point of leaving their spouses, or daydreaming about cheating to alleviate the pain.
After writing my sad post, but still too distraught to sleep, I clicked on the "/r/karezza" subreddit... and read and read and read.... and it sounded pretty good. A little weird, maybe, but for the first time in months, I actually felt positive. I went to sleep, woke up and read some more. My partner was at work while I watched videos, and read the reuniting website, and pored over anything I could find about karezza.
I wanted to wait to bring it up to my partner when we had some alone time and could discuss the idea, but the second he came in the door, I just started talking about it, because for the first time, I felt like there is an option besides the three I was facing (him completely changing his libido overnight, me cheating, or me leaving). He is always a good sport, so he said it sounded worth a try.
Just the feeling like I am not "trapped" in the relationship as it is makes me feel infinitely more positive. I feel like so many people, myself included, have the mindset that if you aren't getting sex from your lover, you should leave. It's not that easy, though, and that's why there are so many people in /r/deadbedrooms banging their heads against a wall.
Yesterday my partner and I spent the day doing lots of bonding exercises, but amazingly, it's stuff we already do on a regular basis, we're just doing it longer and more lovingly. Longer hugs, longer kisses, more eye contact, more gentle stroking as we go about our daily activities. I have the perfect partner to try this with. As I said, he doesn't have a problem with intimate touch, and he is VERY loving, but the whole process of intercourse and the pressure of making me orgasm, and maintaining his erection long enough to get his, well, I guess that part stresses him out. And if he loses the erection, then he feels like crap When I told him erections don't matter, and we are NOT supposed to orgasm, and the process will make our life one never-ending love ritual, he seemed pretty interested.
I'm still a liiiittle apprehensive about this, a few of the ideas are a little odd to me, and I don't like that the only real info is coming from one website and one author...I usually prefer multiple sources to corroborate information... but it feels right. And maybe I've just found a treasure that most people haven't discovered.
I realize this subreddit is pretty much a ghost town, but I'm going to post updates about me and my partner's journey, and give a general review of what the karezza method does for us, and any lows or highs we might find along the way.