My husband and I have a 2 year old and Im 36 weeks pregnant with our second. I work remotely and my husband has a flexible/hybrid schedule. Some days he can work from home so I have some help, but other days he is gone most of the day and im left with working AND taking care of our daughter (while dealing with the insane pregnancy exhaustion and pain). Add in he has 2-3 days a week where he is gone from 6-10pm taking kung fu classes. To be honest, we aren't having a lot of sex. Its only been a handful of times. Its not that I dont want to, its just I have zero energy by the end of the day, and on the rare occasions I do, sometimes I just want some time to myself because I never get it. There have been multiple times my husband has mentioned that he misses being intimate and having sex. I just feel like that puts pressure on me but then he gets upset when I say that because he insists that's not what he's doing. I dont think he is doing it intentionally, he's not that type of person. Be let's be honest, men will really never know what its like being pregnant. And he's always exhausted after doing the bare minimum. I guess I just wish we could explore other ways to get our intimacy back rather than just talking about how much he misses having sex... anyone else experiencing anything similar? I feel defeated.
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I’m in the same boat as you. I work from home full time and take care of our soon to be 2 year old full time he’s gone 6-6 every day and once a week he’s not home until after 9:30. I’m exhausted and meh all the time I’m in a lot of pain. We were having similar issues but I changed my perspective on it. Once we started at least having sex our intimacy outside the bedroom is so much better now too

In the same boat as you but husband is understanding
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