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My husband and I have been together for 7 yrs and we have a 3 y/o and 6 y/o. Our sex life has always been very up and down. Not helped by the fact that early in our relationship I caught him masturbating to pictures of people we knew. I believe he has a very unhealthy relationship with sex.

However I also have a low sex drive since having our children. He argues our spark is gone and that I don’t put any effort in to get it back. I’m trying my best but I’m so tired all the time between working and looking after the children.

If we go a couple of weeks without he then will start to have a shitty attitude towards me, won’t want to hug me or want me near him.

He’ll ask earlier in the day if I think we’ll have sex that night and if I then don’t stick to it then it becomes a problem. I admit I probably don’t always try as hard as I could but I also think he has very unrealistic expectations.

I just don’t know what to do😭

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Sounds like he is the one that needs to be putting in a lot more effort! Asking you of your intentions for later in the day is hardly foreplay 🙄 and I don't think it's ever fair to ask that and simply expect it to follow through later.
Tbh, me and my other half have had an up and down sex life, not helped by postpartum loss of libido, but two weeks without is nothing. Plenty of people have jobs that take them away for that length of time. He needs to sort himself out if he's that desperate, or put that energy into the spark himself.
Can he do more to look after the children so you have energy for intimacy?

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