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July 21, 2020 2:01 pm  #21


Re: What were red flags 🚩 to you ?

Gloria wrote:

....... Oh and one more thing-after six years of intercourse he cannot keep an erection so I have to perform oral sex on him. This has been going on since 2017....... 

 

Who is it that says you have to perform oral sex on him to get him hard? 

Elle

 


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July 21, 2020 4:20 pm  #22


Re: What were red flags 🚩 to you ?

I am having trouble getting around website. I posted something June 27 and saw 20 replies but when I clicked on replies, I could not click on it. I do want to answer Ellexoh -We try intercourse now and then but he cannot retain an erection. He says it gets more  difficult with age. He is 76 and was 66 when we met. He has always needed viagra.About three years ago, we discovered that this worked. I have found out so many other things about him the last six weeks or so so I wondered if this is a sign. If he's gay, maybe he couldn't handle intercourse anymore and this is more natural. So glad that I found this support group. I am disappointed, hurt, and humilated.

 

July 21, 2020 5:35 pm  #23


Re: What were red flags 🚩 to you ?

Gloria wrote:

I am having trouble getting around website. I posted something June 27 and saw 20 replies but when I clicked on replies, I could not click on it. I do want to answer Ellexoh -We try intercourse now and then but he cannot retain an erection. He says it gets more  difficult with age. He is 76 and was 66 when we met. He has always needed viagra.About three years ago, we discovered that this worked. I have found out so many other things about him the last six weeks or so so I wondered if this is a sign. If he's gay, maybe he couldn't handle intercourse anymore and this is more natural. So glad that I found this support group. I am disappointed, hurt, and humilated.

 

The reason I asked you "who says you have to give him oral sex to get hard?" is because throughout my time in the Forum it's become clear to me that whilst a straightspouse is confused, humiliated, left wanting...we still endeavor to make our r'ships better, to understand our partners...while they can still be carrying on in secret with same-sex dalliances, and very capable of living 2 separate existances. Having their cake AND eating it

I found all the sex in the world didn't stop the disappointment I felt when I wasn't getting my emotional needs met by the man who's supposed to know me. 

Elle
 


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July 22, 2020 5:39 am  #24


Re: What were red flags 🚩 to you ?

Ellexhoh, thank you for the response. I have been awake since four and can't sleep lately. My emotional needs are not being met at all. I am trying to hang on but it is so hard. He is taking a 17 year old boy to his vacation home. I will have to stay here and feed his cats. I warned the boy's uncle about what could happen. He got into bed with a 28 year old man last June 6th and my life will never be the same.

 

July 22, 2020 5:42 am  #25


Re: What were red flags 🚩 to you ?

I meant that it was this June 6th. That young man moved out and was terrified. I thought it was a father/son relationship. Had talk with my partner. Said he had never had sex with a man and does not want to but I know better. It hurts me than I can imagine. I have trouble sleeping if I'm not with him.

 

July 22, 2020 8:40 am  #26


Re: What were red flags 🚩 to you ?

Does anyone know if a penis pump is something that a gay man would use? I found one in his closet last fall. He said we would try it sometime.

 

July 22, 2020 8:41 am  #27


Re: What were red flags 🚩 to you ?

I shivered when I read that this man took a 17 year old boy to his vacation home.  I don't know what the legal age of consent is, but if he had sex with this boy, he could be facing rape charges.  

 

July 22, 2020 8:50 am  #28


Re: What were red flags 🚩 to you ?

This is what I know for sure. He and the child may be leaving tomorrow. I may or may not get to go. I warned the boy's father Monday night. He made advances to this 17 year old's 28 year old cousin. This old man is out of control.

 

July 22, 2020 1:25 pm  #29


Re: What were red flags 🚩 to you ?

A few years ago, he and a friend went to a costume shop after Halloween and he bought a red women's wig. He later showed me a picture of him in a dress with the wig on. He wanted to wear the wig and dress to a party but I talked him out of wearing the dress. Young man that he made advances to told me that he often puts the wig on. He put it on and ran across the street one day to talk to someone he knew at a public place. All of these years, I thought that he was eccentric. He may start singing in another language when we are in public. All of his male friends seem to understand it. I see so many signs now after joining this support group.  Love of opera and classical music-maybe   I told him a few years ago that I could not understand bi sexual people. I think you have to be one way or another. He said he thinks everyone is born bi sexual . Told me he had a friend that stopped having sex with woman and switched to men because they were less trouble. He was really into the movie about the gay cowboys. His attempts at intercourse seemed clumsy at first. Kisses me closed mouth or not at all. Asked me to rub his nipples a few times. I personally thought it was odd that he and his deceased wife did not have  intercourse the two years they dated before marriage.They met the year after the summer of love. 

 

July 22, 2020 3:10 pm  #30


Re: What were red flags 🚩 to you ?

Gloria wrote:

Ellexhoh, thank you for the response. I have been awake since four and can't sleep lately. My emotional needs are not being met at all. I am trying to hang on but it is so hard. He is taking a 17 year old boy to his vacation home. I will have to stay here and feed his cats. I warned the boy's uncle about what could happen. He got into bed with a 28 year old man last June 6th and my life will never be the same.

 

Gloria....I'm editing this with a suggestion that you start your own discussion on the Support Board where the responses from others will be specifically for your particular situation  

I read in another of your posts that you have trouble sleeping when he's not with you, and you say your emotional needs are not being met. Your husband sounds like he doesn't care what you think of what he does or how he expresses himself even down to who he has in his bed.
Have you had any STI tests? 
Are you dependent on your husband? 
Do you have anywhere you can go to get away for awhile....family, friends?

This man does not care for you

Elle

Last edited by Ellexoh_nz (July 22, 2020 3:15 pm)


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