My wife wants it all the time. Especially now that she is pregnant and riddled with mood swings. Whatever mood she is in tells her to do it. Here lies the case where I don’t have much interest in intimacy. I can go a whole year without doing it and I would be fine.

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Even before we got married, I never touched her. She was a church girl. The kind who never missed prayer meetings and midweek church services. As for Sundays, the church was her dwelling place. She would go in the morning and return in the evening.

She was very committed to her volunteer work in church. That’s how I saw her, a fellow sister in Christ. So I couldn’t bring myself to have anything sexual to do with her when she agreed to my proposal that we get to know each other for marriage.

Oh, she wanted it back then too. She told me how much she liked it. She tried to initiate it a few times but I always stopped her. “What’s the rush? Let’s wait till marriage.”

The truth is, I didn’t take her seriously back then. I know how women bend over in all sorts of ways just to keep a man, especially at the mention of marriage. I thought it was one of those things with her.

I guess I just couldn’t wrap my mind around the thought that a woman who was so on fire for God would want to fornicate. I saw it as my responsibility to make sure she does not sin against God like that.

Every time she asked for it, I told her, “Imagine how satisfying it would be if we wait and do it in a way that would please God.”

While we waited, I had my little fun on the side with some of the women in my contacts. As I stated earlier, I am not so much into sex. So my experience with these women had nothing to do with an insatiable desire. It was more about sowing my wild oats before I finally commit to one person for the rest of my life.

By and by, I married Martha. Our wedding night was a marathon session. She couldn’t get enough of me. I did everything I knew to please her. Maybe that was the problem.

“Let’s go again,” she would say after climbing down from a climax.

I would get my little man up and ready, and give her everything I had in me.

“That was nice. Do it again,” she would say.

This went on all night. At some point, I couldn’t even get it up anymore. My little man was weak. No more juice. I had to beg her to let me sleep.

That’s how she used me very well throughout the honeymoon. No amount of prowess was ever enough to satisfy her.

I tried to match her energy but I couldn’t keep up. I had to sit down one day and admit that I am not that type of person. I can’t be in the mood to do it all the time. Embracing this about myself is what is now causing problems in our marriage.

I haven’t touched her in eight months. I have stayed away for this long because she is pregnant. I am scared I will hurt the baby.

It hasn’t been easy turning her away. Mostly because her desire seems tied to her emotions.

When she’s sad, she wants me.
When she’s happy, she wants me.
When she’s angry, she still wants me.

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If I were to go with these mood swings, we would be at it several times a day. But thankfully, I have chosen to stay true to myself.

Now she has resorted to crying in an attempt to change my mind. She even says, “My midwife says it’s important for me to have sex during pregnancy. If not it will affect me during childbirth.”

I don’t trust that advice to be true. I feel she’s just using it as a tool to manipulate me into becoming her pleasure toy.

I want to know if there’s any truth to what she claims her midwife is saying. If it’s true, then I will make the sacrifice. I don’t enjoy intimacy. I believe it doesn’t hold any value but I will do it if it’s medically necessary.

—Johnny

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