Alaeland
Disciple of Prayer
My husband has been throwing fits lately about lack of sex. I have an 8-month-old that I exclusively care for. She is breastfed and cosleeps. We live away from family in the middle of nowhere so there’s no childcare and she’s breastfeeding so I can’t be away from her for long anyway, nor do I want to be away from her. My husband thinks it’s dangerous for me to go out alone and there’s nothing to do in this extremely small town anyway so me and her are trapped at day, 24 hours a day 7 days a week in a small house. Me and the baby sometimes don’t leave the house for 14 days straight. If we left to do anything he would probably throw it in my face how he works and I don’t. I do 100% of the childcare, and 100% of everything relating to the house and planning and organization of our lives. I have zero time to myself, and even doing house chores or cooking I have a baby literally hanging on my leg. My husband goes to work 4 days a week to provide, but throws it in my face any chance he gets when he doesn’t get sex and then claims he’s just a paycheck or a bank account to me. I used to work until the baby was born. We have no savings because he had many addictions while I was pregnant and spent thousands a month on pills and shopping even when I begged him to stop, so we’re really fully dependent on his income right now. After work he comes home and eats dinner that I prepared and relaxes on the couch or plays videos games or argues with strangers online about religion or rants to me about what he argues with strangers about online while I get the baby fed and cleaned and ready for bed and then me and the baby go to bed while he stays up. He says I should go to work then and he will stay home with the baby if it’s so hard. He’s throws temper tantrums that I don't want to have him put his penis in my anus. I have hemorrhoids now after giving birth and I just don’t want to do it. I never liked it, ever. He says I’m a liar and He starts telling me extremely mean and gross degrading things like how much I must have liked to do that with ex’s and how lucky they were and how I’m horrible I won’t do it with my husband and it turns into racist unnecessary disrespectful comments. I have zero libido. I still try to have sex with him just to appease him. It’s not enjoyable for me in the slightest and feels violating. He complains about other sex acts I don’t enjoy like licking me. I told him I would lay there and spread my genitals and sit there while he did for himself if it pleased him but it wouldn’t do anything for me, and he still gets angry that I don’t want it. It honestly sounds violating to lay there and let him do that but it’s better than being nagged and told those gross degrading things and feel threatened because we depend on him. He also complains I don’t let him lick my anus and I just find this so disgusting and degrading to be treated this way. When I say he complains, I mean he freaks out. It gets to the point that he is just horrible to me over it. I don’t want my breasts sucked when they have milk coming out of them. It’s so one-sided and he does not care as long as he gets himself off. I have found porn on his computer and I think he masturbates to porn or to photos after we go to bed. I asked for help with what we can do to entertain the baby so he can get off on my body and he just gets angry and mean. On the rare moment the baby is occupied and I can maybe have a shower alone or even just do something like sleep, he uses it as an opportunity to expect sex instead. I was letting the baby watch TV near us while we did that in the shower and he said the shower is now boring to him and he’s not going to do that anymore because he doesn’t like it. I don’t know what else I can do. The baby is very clingy and there’s nobody to watch her while he has sex with me and she simply will not sleep alone right now. Sometimes she cries but he’s not finished yet so I have to endure sex while she’s screaming for me and hoping he finishes fast and it’s just not enjoyable at all. If we can’t do the shower anymore, I don’t know what else can be done with her and he’s freaking out over it and being mean and short with me and making it my problem to deal with. I ask for help coming up with solutions and he has none and freaks out and says FINE THEN WELL JUST HAVE A SEXLESS MARRIAGE. I’m just starting to feel really depressed and worthless and stuck at this point and my situation feels hopeless. I feel bad because my baby didn’t do anything to deserve to be born into this situation and doesn’t deserve to hear him degrade me sexually and insult me and have nasty comments to me. I didn’t know how pregnancy and birth and having a baby would affect me. He had a much older son, and divorced his wife after he cheated on her many times with many women because he didn’t get to have sex as much as he wanted. He claimed he repented and changed and would never do that again, but to be honest, I’m terrified of the future for myself and my child. I feel there’s nothing else to do but give it to Jesus and pray.