Opinion: Is it a woman's responsibility to have sex while pregnant?
My S/O and I are expecting our first in June, and I'm 13 weeks pregnant. We have sex at least 3-4 times a week. Before I was pregnant, we'd do it every single night, and in the morning when we woke up (although that always annoyed me). It was 1 am and we had our blood tests the next day, I was asleep while my S/O watched a show. I had to fast for the test obviously, and had to get it done at 6:30 am, so I already knew this was a recipe for disaster as I get RIDICULOUSLY hungry and nauseous in general when I wake up, much less before 10:30. So I'd been asleep for a while, not wanting to add lack of sleep into the mix while I was getting blood drawn. My S/O turned off his show and decided to start basically thrusting at me. I woke up and told him to stop because it was really late and we had to be up early. He got super mad and threw a hissy fit. When I pointed out that he was literally having a hissy fit because I didn't want to have sex, he said it was because I'm not "passionate" enough and he doesn't feel like he's in a real relationship and we don't have enough sex, but it's not about sex. I was disgusted. The conversation could've been left for the morning but he rambled on about it for hours. I also hadn't wanted to have sex because last time we had, it has really hurt and while I dealt with the pain afterwards , he just drifted off to sleep all comfortably. And he knew it had hurt me as well, so I'm not sure why it surprised him I didn't want to do it again, much less at a time where we needed to be up.
We got over it, and 2 days had passed without us having sex. He started whining about his needs, and how just because I'm pregnant doesn't mean I can't have sex. He's been relentless about it and is acting like he's SO deprived because we hadn't had sex in 2 days.
Now he just tagged me in a video on Facebook about how important it is to have sex and how a lack of sex can affect the body.
I'm so annoyed. I've explained to him multiple times what it's like to be pregnant and not want to have sex. It's not like we never do it, either. What would you do in this situation?
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