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I’m 33 and my wife is 31. We’ve been married for five years and have two children, and we recently found out we’re expecting our third child unexpectedly.
Before this pregnancy, there were many times I would ask for intimacy and be turned down. Even when we were intimate, it often felt like she wasn’t really interested or emotionally connected. This has been an ongoing issue for at least three years in our marriage, though in the middle of those seasons we still ended up having children together.
Now I find myself in a strange place. I love my wife and I love my family deeply, but I no longer have the desire to be intimate with her. It feels like something inside me has shut off. I’m not interested in cheating or pursuing anyone else, but after years of feeling rejected and disconnected, I think it has finally caught up to me emotionally.
What makes it even harder is that now she desires intimacy more, and as a man of God I feel convicted because Scripture teaches us not to withhold intimacy from one another. But it’s difficult trying to reconnect physically when internally I just don’t feel the desire anymore..

I’m 33 and my wife is 31. We’ve been married for five years and have two children, and we recently found out we’re expecting our third child unexpectedly.
Before this pregnancy, there were many times I would ask for intimacy and be turned down. Even when we were intimate, it often felt like she wasn’t really interested or emotionally connected. This has been an ongoing issue for at least three years in our marriage, though in the middle of those seasons we still ended up having children together.
Now I find myself in a strange place. I love my wife and I love my family deeply, but I no longer have the desire to be intimate with her. It feels like something inside me has shut off. I’m not interested in cheating or pursuing anyone else, but after years of feeling rejected and disconnected, I think it has finally caught up to me emotionally.
What makes it even harder is that now she desires intimacy more, and as a man of God I feel convicted because Scripture teaches us not to withhold intimacy from one another. But it’s difficult trying to reconnect physically when internally I just don’t feel the desire anymore.

I’m 33 and my wife is 31. We’ve been married for five years and have two children, and we recently found out we’re expecting our third child unexpectedly.
Before this pregnancy, there were many times I would ask for intimacy and be turned down. Even when we were intimate, it often felt like she wasn’t really interested or emotionally connected. This has been an ongoing issue for at least three years in our marriage, though in the middle of those seasons we still ended up having children together.
Now I find myself in a strange place. I love my wife and I love my family deeply, but I no longer have the desire to be intimate with her. It feels like something inside me has shut off. I’m not interested in cheating or pursuing anyone else, but after years of feeling rejected and disconnected, I think it has finally caught up to me emotionally.
What makes it even harder is that now she desires intimacy more, and as a man of God I feel convicted because Scripture teaches us not to withhold intimacy from one another. But it’s difficult trying to reconnect physically when internally I just don’t feel the desire anymore.