Since giving having my baby in 2025 my sex drive has completely vanished. I can’t lie it’s not been huge in the latter few years of our relationship (we’ve been together 11) but now I quite literally dread when my partner initiates sex.
It’s got the point where he point blanks asks me “can we have sex tonight” which I hate as I immediately feel under pressure. If I come up with an excuse or say I’m not in the mood he’s usually feeling rejected but then brings it up again the following day literally the moment he gets in from work and the cycle starts again.
Eventually when I am like yeah ok I literally hate every moment of it, nothing feels pleasurable and I just want it to be over. He tries his best to try to get me to enjoy it but there is nothing he could do. If he tries foreplay everything feels over sensitive like he’s tickling me rather than touching me intimately and I have to tell him to stop.
Since having my baby (c section 2025) I have been diagnosed with an audio immune disease called hashimotos which is hypothyroidism, I’m not sure if this is a contributing factor but I have no idea where to go from here.
I quite genuinely feel miserable and struggle to find joy in anything other than my daughter and reading books 🤷
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I can really recommend ’Come as you Are’ by Emily Nagoski- a brilliant book that could help you figure out what you want intimacy to look like now, what is keeping you from enjoying it and what might help.

Come together paired with come as you are. Discover yourself what feels good then communicate and work with him.

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