What’s the deal?
Backstory: I’m 9 weeks pp. My stitches hadn’t healed by the 6 week pp visit and I was advised to wait 2 more weeks for sex. I went back in around 7 weeks due to terrible pain that would keep me up at night and she gave me silver nitrate. I was advised to wait 2 more weeks. Omg! I felt so bad that I couldn’t have sex with my husband. This was on top of feeling less attractive due to a stomach that’s still deflating, a few stretch marks, and overall less confidence since becoming a new mother. I used cream I was given and soaked in epsom salt multiple times a day in desperate attempt to get better.
Now, I did a terrible thing (a couple times) because of my low self confidence and looked at my husbands phone history. He has been looking at porn just about every day even though I do my best to make him happy often. He said he wouldn’t look at it anymore and did the next day!! Now I’ve gotten to a place where I can have sex with him comfortably. We did it once and it was great. I’ve been excited to try again since we’ve had sex maybe twice in the past 3 months. Last night he knew I had been thinking about it all day and made the comment (kind of jokingly) that we weren’t going to because he wanted to go straight to bed without taking a shower. He said he was joking but Idk if he was just feeling around to see if I was still interested or if he really didn’t want to. I’m so hurt that he’s been looking at these other women and not looking at or touching his own wife! & now that we can finally have sex he doesn’t want to!
Of course in my mind I feel like he hates the way I look and is put off by watching me give birth and breastfeed with my newly saggy boobs. But it could be my crazy pp hormones. I just don’t know if I should shrugg it off or be highly hurt and offended. I know that sometimes it’s ok to just not be interested but he never used to be like this. I’m just sad. What would yall do? Has this happened to anyone?
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.