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"Boyfriend watches porn rather than having sex with me"

So my partner and I have been together 2.5 years, everything moved very quickly, he got on great with my so from a previous relationship and we moved in together, bought our first house and had a baby. Baby is currently 6 months old.

Up until I fell pregnant the sex was great. It was regular, passionate and adventurous. However when I got pregnant we barely had sex at all and I just assumed he was put off by my bump or felt weird with the baby in there! I assumed things would get better once baby arrived and everything settled down. Nope! He was showing me a news article on his phone one day and went away whilst I was still reading it. He had a message come through from one of his friends that mentioned my name in it. I know I shouldn’t have but I clicked it and saw a load of messages in a group chat about our sex lives. He had sent a message saying that whenever I left the house with the kids he was watching porn. It sent shivers through me. I don’t agree with porn I think it’s demeaning and know that a lot of the girls have been trafficked or forced to do porn to get by.

I looked at his search history and saw that he was watching loads of porn whenever I was out of the house, including when I was at a funeral. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t want to confront him with what I had found because I knew I was in the wrong for checking his phone but it was killing me.

Weeks went by and I felt awful every time I went out. It was all I could think about. Eventually I brought it up and he denied it, then he admitted it but said he only did it once just after I’d had the baby and then he finally admitted he did it regularly. He said it was no big deal and that every guy does it.

We went back to having occasional sex, maybe once a week at most and I assumed he’s stopped watching it. He’d been really distant again lately, coming to bed really late and not interested in sex so I have a quick look at his search history and saw that he was watching sex at night rather than coming to bed with him! I just feel disgusting and like I’m the most unattractive woman in the world! He swears he’s still attracted to me but he can’t be if he’d rather watch porn than come to bed with me when I’ve literally offered it to him on a plate! Anyone else experienced this or got any advice?

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