Am i expecting too much?

Me and my partner have been together for 7 years. Our sex life has always been a bit boring. He is not experimental at all and has quite a low sex drive. I am the total opposite. We’ve had countless conversations over the years about it and he always says he wants to do more but never does. Now we’ve had our baby, its just disappeared completely. We’ve had sex twice in 8 months. I am climbing the walls and he’s completely fine. I don’t understand how to change it because its all down to him. I’ve tried everything and now i’m lost for what to do.
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Have you tried asking him what he would be comfortable with? Start small and build up from there. Do you know his love language?

@Jenny i’ve honestly tried everything. Everytime i ask him, he says he wants to do everything I like, but then doesn’t and just carries on doing the 2 things he likes 🤷🏻‍♀️

Could be that he just feels awkward about initiating. Men can lose sight of their sexy personas as well and can feel clunky to try. Tiredness/stress can fuck up a libido as well. You may needs to take the lead to start until he build confidence. He needs to feel like a sexy beast so try not to get into the trap of critical communication. Not ideal if you like your man to lead but it's gotta start somewhere. I hope that helps. Sex therapy might be worth a look as well

@D he’s had therapy before. I have tried taking the lead. That ended up in me doing stuff to him 14 seperate times without anything in return.

I did read somewhere that porn addiction is a factor in erectile disfunction in men and reason for refusing intimacy with their partner. Maybe is is mansturbating to get what he needs and then he's happy without trying too much? I had same issue with my partner and he admitted he was watching porn because with the baby we never got real time for us. We talked and we are better now.

@Alina i am almost 100% sure thats not the issue. He’s never on his own for that long really.

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