Background: After sex became less frequent, I did typical beta behaviour (asking, negotiating ect) and it held in there for a while, but I payed for it later on. She is low on affection, avoids sexual behaviour, and after a period of saying she felt uncomfortable about her body asked me to stop slapping her ass and similar actions. Now the second my hands cross the line from playful rubbing or affection to going into her pants or grabbing her ass she's immediately angry and pulls away, says she asked me stop before and why don't I listen. The first few times this happened before I came here I responded poorly "oh so it's wrong for a boyfriend to be attracted to his girlfriend?" and typical butthurt shit. Now I know better, but I'm not sure if initiating at this point with guaranteed hard angry no's while I'm so unattractive to her will just dig my hole deeper, or if the calm DGAF OI I now know to internalize and display will say more than my initiation. I've only tried 3 times since MRP, twice had the same kind of hard no's, and the other time was the morning after my birthday which leads me to believe it was duty sex after the longest we've gone without sex (a month). Even then, while it started out with light kino, she was the one who took off her underwear and covertly signaled for sex, I reached down to rub on her and she still swatted my hand away. A few nights ago something came up and she mentioned how she's sorry she has body issues and how she tried to give me sex for my birthday. I just STFU because I knew nothing good would come out of my mouth in response to the sex part and said she has a great body.

So at this point my options appear to be:

  • continue initiating regularly with OI and no butthurt, have something setup to do instead knowing I'm pretty much guaranteed to be doing that until I'm more attractive
  • find another way to initiate that isn't asking her, isn't too overt
  • stop initiating and see how she responds if at all

I'm leaning towards the first two, and of course, outside of this, my main steps are be attractive, don't be unattractive, pass shit tests, have a vision and keep busy.