What are your opinions on a sexless marriage?

LA: What are your opinions on a sexless marriage?
I’m single, never married. But I’ve read so many questions and answers about married people complaining about how disastrous their sex lives are.

What are your opinions on a sexless marriage? How important is sex in a marriage?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Master of the Dark Covenant
Hookers.

Answer by B
Just sad

Answer by Troy
it wouldnt last to long

Answer by Forlorn Hope-only 5 suspensions
sexless marriage is no marriage at all…

sex is very important…

Answer by Conflicted
Sex is important, but intimacy is what’s REALLY important.

Answer by Tita
Well, let’s say is the condiment of marriage. Without it the food is taste less. Soon she or you will change tables to taste the delicious food serves someplace else.

Answer by BabeHeart
I would not stay in a sexless relationship (married or not). If my partner and I couldn’t fix the issue somehow, then we’d have to part ways. Sex isn’t the most important part of a relationship, but it is important enough to me that I do not choose to do without it indefinitely, if I have a romantic partner in my life.

Answer by Cristina s
have you ever heard anyone say ” sex is only 10% of the relationship, but it’s the first 10.” sex (good sex) is very very important in a marriage.

Answer by Kevin R
Not for me thank you

Answer by sheloves_dablues
A sexless marriage isn’t a marriage, it’s a friendship.

Sex is very important in a happy, healthy marriage. It’s not the only thing that’s important, and it’s not the only thing that’s important, but without it, you don’t have a marriage.

Answer by Gold Digger
if the guy is rich… that wud be perfect… speshly if he works an travels lots so i never got to see him…

Answer by solomon
Companionship is sometimes a REASON for marriage.. Couples DO marry for just that..Although marriage is a union of people,,sometimes the sexual aspects of it play out,,and the rest of the marriage,,eg. children,,security,,and companionship is more than enough to satisfy the couple involved..In some other cases,,especially young marriages,, the sexual aspect is WHAT keeps the marriage healthy..If this sours,,the marriage is doomed..Other times one or the other partner is not particularly wild about constant sex or even occasional sex.. This can be for various different reasons,,which with conselling can be overcome,,or improved.. Different people different situations,, and all marriages are different.. Only the participants in the marriage can describe and correct or dissolve a sexless marriage.. And only they will stay or leave one for whatever reasons they so may have.. SOLOMON

Answer by Madi
it will kill ur marriage! I do not belive that a relationship can survive w out the intmate bond that is created from sex. unless one person has a medical issue & can not. it causes anger, resentment, insecurities (sp?) & distance. marriage w out sex is called friends or roomates not marriage.

Answer by Dan
man its a tough thing, and there are many reasons why, I am myself in one of those marriages right now, and i think about sex all the time.

Answer by The Padre
Every couple is different. For the vast majority, sex is important, even essential, particularly during the first years of marriage.

I have known couples, however, where both members have low sex-drives (which are both hormonally- and societally-based), and to whom sex was not particularly important at all, although emotional intimacy was. In those marriages, sex was sporadic to non-existent, but it worked for that particular couple.

The problems come up when either there is a mismatch in the sex-drives and expectations within the couple– when one partner wants/needs/expects more sex than the other, leaving one person feeling pressured and the other denied (and this is where communication is essential, and marital counseling very helpful), or when one or both members of the couple cannot tell the difference between sexuality and emotional intimacy, and consider “having sex” to be sufficient for true intimacy, which it is not. [That too can often be helped with good marriage and family counseling.]

However, providing both members of the couple are satisfied with the status quo, sex nightly or never makes little difference… providing the emotional bonds of intimacy are intact. It’s not the physical act, as much fun as it may be, but what it means and represents that is important.

Answer by I love it when you’re @
a sexless marriage isn’t good… but if they love each other they can be happy without sex too … so depends on the persons in the marriage

Answer by jasond7622
Since I’m stuck in one, I can honestly say it SUCKS! It is the most frustrating, humiliating position to be in I can think of. What is worse is that the sex was fine for the first couple of years, but went downhill a lot after that. Now, it does not exist. She doesn’t want it at all.
I love everything about marriage: kids, home, family, a monogamous wife, but sex is a normal, healthy part of a marriage. Not having it is extremely frustrating…