Relationship/Sex question from a Stressed FTM!

Hi Ladies! I’m a FTM to a beautiful preemie baby girl that arrived 6 weeks early. After 2 months in the NICU we were finally sent home with a feeding tube as she cannot feed orally still. She is on various medications and is fed 6x/day by tube. My husband has started to get upset as we have not had sex in about 3 weeks but I am just so tired and stressed with all her problems. We were having sex more when she has still admitted but once she came home it’s been so chaotic! He is super helpful with the baby and a great dad, and he is fantastic with my needs and feelings. I get the impression he is mostly feeling lonely. Any advice or other mom that have had similar relationship issues??
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Is he being (at all) supportive of the care that you and your baby clearly otherwise need? Is he engaged in that with you at all? Or just focussed on what he wants? I really hope you have other support around you too.

Has he tried his hand?

@Willow I have and he respects it, but I can tell he is annoyed when it’s brought up

@Rosa he is actually super helpful with the baby and my needs, but I get the feeling he feels lonely mostly

Maybe you’re right, the adjustment for him that he’s not priority and it’s a life change. No more freedom. That sounds like the underlying issue that he masks with sex

Honey most men only care about sex mainly. I can’t believe he is even pressuring you for sex your child was in a very bad way at birth, this is disgusting behaviour really and not 100% supportive of him. Has he said, babe relax I’ll give you a massage then followed through?

why is he not interest when you are taking care of baby he should help so he is not “lonely”. 3 weeks is hardly long without sex, if you said 3 months then maybe, even so, it’s not a reason to get depressed.

I couldn’t imagine having my child in the NICU for that long and then having to go home to a partner that’s mad he’s not getting sex. He’s not the priority lol. Tell him to go to the bathroom and jack off if he’s that desperate. I woulda told him to fuck off and get the fuck away from me and my child 😅

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