My boyfriend has a much higher sex drive than me, and I don’t know how we’re going to handle it long-term.
My boyfriend and I have been together for four years. He has always had a high libido, and for the first few years, I was perfectly happy with that. We were intimate almost daily, sometimes more than once a day.
But as time has passed, my own drive has naturally decreased, and now I sometimes feel sore while he’s still interested in being intimate as often as we used to.
I suggested opening up the relationship to include someone else, mainly because I thought it might help with the difference in our libidos, but he completely rejected the idea. He wants us to remain strictly monogamous, which I’m honestly happy with too.
My question is, how do couples handle a difference in sex drive when one partner wants intimacy much more often than the other?
Will his libido eventually decrease with age, or is this something we’ll need to figure out together? I love him, but I don’t want either of us to feel frustrated or pressured in the relationship.