I've written plenty about the sex problems my wife and I had, especially about the lies and broken promises. In actuality though, they weren't so much lies and broken promises as they were the actions of a typical prick teaser. I mean, telling me two hours before bed time that she was horny and wanted to fuck after our kids were in bed. Then, when the time came, she would no longer be in the mood, or have some excuse for us not having sex. And every time she made the offers, she'd swear and promise that she would still be in the mood, despite the number of times that wasn't the case. The actual ratio of broken promises was more than 5 to 1, meaning that she'd make those promises at least 10 times a month, yet we'd only have sex twice. I think even professional prick teasers have better ratios than that, so it was pretty bad.
No matter what I tried, I couldn't get her to stop making promises she wasn't going to keep. And, she wouldn't stop getting upset that I didn't believe her when she made them. Of course, the biggest one of those was the repeated promises about how things would get better if we had another baby. I don't recall exactly how many arguments we had about that, about knowing she was lying, but it was a lot. And, sure enough, once she was pregnant, all sex ceased for one reason or another. One month after the baby was born; she still wasn't in the mood for any type of sex. So, I went looking for sex partners on the internet, in plain view so she could see what I was doing. And that resulted in me finding Senem as I recounted in the story Now What. While she knew I was looking, I don't think she was ever aware of my affair with Senem. Not that I did anything to hide it, I just didn't come right out and tell her because that would be rubbing her face in it. And since we met on what would normally be an exercise night for me, there were no obvious signs.
Three months after that, she still wasn't interested in sex, which is when I spent my first night with Ugly as told in the story Fucking Ugly. This one she definitely knew about right away, because I was with Ugly until the next morning. And, for the first time in our marriage, rather than apologize for having done something wrong, I flat out told her that this was the way it was going to be. She had driven me to this point, with her games and lies, and she knew that something like this would eventually happen. So, she could either accept that I was going to get my needs taken care of elsewhere, or she could file for a divorce. The choice was hers. Of course, she tried every trick she knew to convince me that what I was doing was wrong and that I should stop. But, she was fighting a battle she couldn't win because I'd been ready for her arguments even before Senem. I may not have had the guts to do anything until then, but I'd rehearsed the fights in my mind for a long time.
Her telling me she knew all along that I'd cheat on her like every man does was met with the fact that even the strongest man has his limits. And, there was no judge who would blame me, except to say I should have done it long ago, or I should have divorced her. Divorce was still an option if that's what she wanted, but again, the judge, even a female one, would be on my side not hers, once they learned the whole story. Besides, I wasn't cheating, because what I was doing was out in the open, not behind her back. As a matter of fact, wasn't it her who had told me to go get laid, and who'd said that my sex life was not her business? Her next argument was that I'd end up leaving her for the other girl. My answer was almost the same as the first one, that if I didn't do this we'd end up divorced quicker, because I wasn't going to live without sex anymore. So, she could risk possibly losing me to another woman somewhere down the road, or she could lose me now. Her third argument wasn't the same day, but it also got a similar response. What I was doing to her was cruel and it was tearing her apart inside. For that one, I just reminded her of the pain she'd put me through for 9 years. If my repeatedly telling her the whole 9 years how much she was hurting me didn't make her stop, what made her think I'd stop after only one week?
She did make one attempt to convince me to give up seeing Ugly by offering to change her ways. However, she proved it wasn't a serious offer by asking it the form of a hypothetical question a few days before I was to see Ugly again. If she promised to take care of my needs from now on, would I stop seeing this girl? I obviously told her I had stopped believing her promises a long time ago. And, I told her that I knew she'd only take care of me long enough to get me to drop Ugly, then she'd go right back to her old ways. She didn't even try to argue that her offer was genuine, so I knew it wasn't. Had she been serious though, she had a few nights where she could easily have shown me that she was at least willing to try. But, other than that one question, she did absolutely nothing to back up her offer. In other words, the end result was that she accepted the situation because she knew it was her fault and she knew she wouldn't do what it took to fix it.
You may think that I didn't do enough to try and figure out why she did the things she did. The fact is, that over the almost 9 years that we had this problem I did everything I could. I tried talking to her about it, both to find out what was wrong, and what I could do to make things more pleasurable for her. The answer I got most of the time was that there was nothing wrong and that she loved the way I made love and wouldn't change a thing. If that was really the case, she'd want sex more often, wouldn't she? And when I'd ask about the broken promises, she had no explanation as to why she kept making promises that she wasn't going to keep. Add to that that it was always the wrong time and place to talk about our problems, even when we were alone, and you can see that I was getting nowhere fast. Pushing the issue did get something out of her, what she labeled as things she hadn't wanted to hurt me by telling me. Things like me needing to take a shower before coming to bed, or work on making my stomach smaller. But, while they might be things she wanted, with one exception that I'll cover later, they had nothing to do with our sex life. That is, me doing them didn't make her more interested in sex, and it seemed the more I tried the less sex I got.