My girlfriend and I have been together roughly 4 years. Over the past two I’ll admit I’ve been a bit complacent, i want really putting in show effort i probably showed have. Took our relationship for granted. Recently over the past year our sex life nose dived from probably once or twice a week to once a month to not at all. Granted a lot of that was caused by her depression which was exacerbated by hormonal birth control she was on. So seeking to alleviate that we took out the implant and she decided she was comfortable with getting an IUD instead and seeing if that worked. Immediately after having it put in, within a day or two, if I touched her she felt genuinely disgusted. Like a close friend was getting too handsy. She completely lost all sexual attraction to me and even hated being around me. Just looking at me or talking to me put her in a shitty mood. Within a week we took the IUD out and while there was not immediate improvement she now enjoys being around me but not be touched. I also have my reasons to believe she doesn’t love me as much as she once did and is considering a breakup.

It’s all just happening very fast. Her sister and I are working on compiling ways I could improve on our relationship. We’ve compiled date and gift ideas as well as a flowchart for how to construct a date as a surprise without giving her anxiety (what info to give her what not etc etc). I’m regularly visiting the gym mainly to blow of steam but also in hopes that I could be a bit more sexually attractive to her idk. My girlfriend and I have also talked about maybe doing couples therapy. She wants to make it work but she sometimes seems like she’s gauging how I would react if we did break up. At this point I don’t know what to do, I’m terrified of losing but I feel like everything I’m doing is way too much way too late.

  • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The only real advice I can give you is to not take advice from a bunch of terminally online randoms. Nobody here knows you or cares about you, and they only care about the drama.

    Beyond that, seek out a professional couples therapist and really listen to them.

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        1 year ago

        Some employers offer 3-6 free sessions through an employee assistance program. See if you have that as an option. Also, better help is a online therapy site which is comparatively inexpensive.

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        1 year ago

        I feel for you man. I really do.

        My wife and I just passed 10 years ago little while back and we’ve been in your shoes. I can’t tell you what to do, but I can tell you if I listened to advice from random people online, we would have divorced years ago.

        If you’re both set on staying together and working it out, that’s great and you’re already 90% of the way there to just looking back 5 years from now and laughing about the time you asked for advice on the internet and half the people told you that she was already one foot out of the relationship and you should pack up and move on.