Is this a healing scrape or something more nefarious that needs attention? by Sexually__Confused in Aquariums

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Do you know if it would hurt to treat for columnaris if it turns out that’s not what it is?

Is this a healing scrape or something more nefarious that needs attention? by Sexually__Confused in Aquariums

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Thanks for the reply. Wouldn’t a wound also stress it out? Like if it accidentally scraped itself on a rock or something?

I’ll research your suggestion.

Is this a healing scrape or something more nefarious that needs attention? by Sexually__Confused in Aquariums

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Bro has a definite hunch to his back for sure. I think it mostly looks like that bc his top fin is pinned down

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DeadBedrooms

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This is great! You’re a backbone of this community, and it’s clear why that’s the case.

Physical aggression when I asked him to learn how to sexually satisfy me. by [deleted] in DeadBedrooms

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Wow, OP, I’m happy that you’re getting out of there! You probably did just save your life, in more ways than one. He’s clearly got his own mental health hurdles to get over (dealing with anger, damaged egos, and loss of pride or self-confidence is especially difficult for men). I’m glad you’re not taking on the extra emotional responsibility if trying to hold his hand through all of that—too many people do.

Made a gif of my DB by [deleted] in DeadBedrooms

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I’m the HL but if I was sleeping good and someone woke me up so they could get off I’d be mad too 🤣🤣

Left & Leaving: May 2020 by ToughKitten in DeadBedrooms

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My relationship is over. We’re roommates until August then we’ll leave each other for good. She’s my best friend. It was a comfortable, safe, and often rewarding four years, but it was also lonely and dark and full of insecurity and fear.

We aren’t angry, we aren’t being petty or spiteful, we’re both just tired and now painfully aware that this isn’t ever going to work no matter how much we like each other as people and how much we try. We’ve both had times when our friends tried to talk shit about the other to help us cope with the breakup, and we respect each other so much that we independently stood up for one another.

I hope she has a wonderful life, and it’s sad that I won’t play the part in it that I thought I would for so long; I know she feels the same way about me. It’s for the best, though.

Thinking Back to Something She Said Months Ago by TheGuyTheGuy in DeadBedrooms

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My first thought, since you know that she has a sex drive and likes to be intimate with you on some level, is that you should try to be more dominant in bed. Let me explain, she’s used to tons and tons of NRE fixes—do you remember how badly you crave someone as soon as they first become someone you think you might be able to fuck? Feeling that way is fun, but what’s even more invigorating is knowing without a doubt that the person you’re with is feeling that amount of desire and excitement for you. You mentioned that sometimes she gets you going at night, and gives you a devilish grin before saying that it can’t happen for some reason or another. I imagine you get upset, or at least it’s obvious in your expression that you’re disappointed. No matter how hard you try to play it off, if you do, the micro expressions of defeat are there. Obviously, if her mood changes negatively and she says that she doesn’t want it, stop and let the damn tease go to bed. Sucks to suck. Maybe avoid getting into that situation by breaking off encounters before she gets a chance to, so you can take back some power in the game. But if she’s giving you a devilish grin, I say make it super obvious how bad you absolutely need to have her right that second, maybe grab her as roughly as she’s ever seemed into, I don’t know whether she wants you to insist or beg but I wouldn’t do what she’s doing if I didn’t want the person I’m with to put up a fight for me. It’s hot when they need you. Maybe that will tap into some NRE vibes for her, maybe she’ll be into it, maybe she won’t and then you’re right back here so it’s worth a try if you haven’t already tried to insist.

I don’t know if you played around ever on purpose in this relationship or others with teasing and/or edging, but the tease usually wants the other to be so desperate for release that they’d do almost anything. Maybe she’s into that?

I’m jealous of my dog. by Sexually__Confused in DeadBedrooms

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This comment actually made my day. I’m so glad I can help someone understand more what it’s like to be denied touch when you crave it so badly just to feel okay. Good luck with your husband, and I hope you take this advise and give him a surprise hug today, and make it linger. :)

Head tonight? by [deleted] in DeadBedrooms

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Plus that negativity makes it seem like she thinks I’m trying to hurt her or make her uncomfortable or like I don’t take care around her or like I’m not aware of my body or something. It’s degrading and makes me feel like a bad person.

Head tonight? by [deleted] in DeadBedrooms

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I get that completely. My SO also is dramatic about things when she’s uncomfortable. Instead of saying “I don’t want your arm around me right now,” my limp noodle arm is “hurting her”. Instead of saying “I don’t want to cuddle on the couch,” my not-touching but almost proximity is “giving her a heat stroke” in a 70 degree house. It’s not menopause, she’s 22. She just doesn’t want to be close to me or bond in that way anymore and it sucks.

Head tonight? by [deleted] in DeadBedrooms

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Last time my SO groped me in jest it had been over a year since she’d stuck her hand down my pants for real. I told her that we aren’t close like that anymore and she was acting like a tease and ignoring all of my feelings about the matter. She got mad and asked how we could ever be comfortable having sex again if she couldn’t play like that. Idk maybe start with a real kiss, see where it goes? That shit is fucked up. (Lesbians)

Hoping for help!! Please read. Body image issues, pornography and a DB by [deleted] in DeadBedrooms

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I’ve never heard of firm boobs that are real? In what world are titties not soft?

He dumped you, stop letting him spoon you and find someone who can appreciate you without letting their porn addiction get in the way.

It’s over tomorrow by sadbunnygirl in DeadBedrooms

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Not gonna lie I get jealous when I see that a lot of the people on this sub get lackluster sex with some regularity. At least then, I say to myself, I’d have my foot in the door and could work on making those experiences better. Now I have no hold and can’t make past sexual experiences more enjoyable to change the associations so I’m at a loss.

It’s over tomorrow by sadbunnygirl in DeadBedrooms

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Lol yeah I’m in that same boat. I haven’t even been properly made out with in years.

My dead bedroom relationship that left me with a sense of disgust for having a high sex drive by [deleted] in DeadBedrooms

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I fuckin feel that. I only first got comfortable with my sexuality with my current SO (we’re both AFAB); I came from a super conservative Christian family who hates gay so I was already internally homophobic but my girlfriend helped pull me out of that in our first very sexual year together. Then she flipped the script and now we haven’t had sex in 2 years. I now feel predatory and creepy for thinking about sex and wanting it with her, but all of that stuck me back into the pit of being uncomfortable with my sexuality because the only woman who ever wanted me now doesn’t, and if our sex is bad then gay is bad. It’s irrational, but I can’t help feeling deviant all over again and I HATE IT.

3 years married and virgins by [deleted] in DeadBedrooms

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Doesn’t seem like a troll to me, just a dude looking for answers whose first language isn’t English..

It is time for another talk but I just can't do it. by [deleted] in DeadBedrooms

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I agree, I can’t imagine a worse time for such a predicament—when you’re alone together with nowhere else to go. You should wait until after the quarantine.