A bit about me. I'm 36. I've been red pilled for just over 2 years, married 14. I'm endorsed on MRP - not that I'm bragging, but to cut through the basics. I know my stuff. I've read the entire MRP and TRP sidebars and virtually all of the top 100 posts. I'm 11% BF, bench around 255 and squat 335 - all for sets (I don't ORM). I pull IOIs constantly and have flirted with catch-and-release some during my first year being red pilled (I have abundance and don't need that crap anymore). I've never cheated or gone on a date with any of these girls. I have clear boundaries on what I'm okay with and not and will not cross into sin on this stuff.

I have a clear mission as an evangelist. I share the Gospel with people regularly and God has been good and blessed me with much fruit. I teach in my church and preach sermons periodically. I'm a psychologist by profession, focusing on family issues, including marriage counseling and child psychology. I earn six figures.

Long story short, I really am the prize. But I believe I do live with a humble attitude IRL - this is just an RP forum, so a quick run-down seemed appropriate.


So here's the deal. My relationship with my wife has always been a sexual struggle. We've had some great times, but they've always been few and far between. I came to the red pill looking for a longer lasting solution. I made a lot of changes and preached the program on MRP, but as a practical matter not a whole lot changed. Theologically, I view remarriage after divorce as sin, so without changing my theology to suit my whims if I want to have sex again, I'm either going to wait until my wife dies or we're going to figure this out.

On Sunday my wife drops a few bombs. She's not attracted to me and never has been. I asked about when we were dating and she said, "Even when we were dating I simply didn't find you attractive - and I know you're even better looking now [I went from a runner build to a muscular build]." In her words, "The church always taught me that I should find the godliest man I could and marry him and that nothing else mattered, so that's what I did. And in that way you've never disappointed me. But when I married you I was ignoring the fact that I'm not attracted to you because the church told me that God would make it all work out if I just found a godly man."

She started crying and insisting, "I've never faked an orgasm with you. The only reason I keep having sex with you is because you're so darn good at it. But there's never been a point where I've looked at you and thought, 'I want to have sex with that guy right now.'"

As the conversation went on, she stated that she knows other women find me attractive and that "you could be pulling 9s and 10s," but that I'm just not her personal taste and she's never been able to get past that. Today she was crying again, saying she wished she could just die because, in her words, "You don't need me. You can do everything. You've got a great job, you're a wonderful dad, you can handle the house on your own," etc. Then she adds, "If I died you'd be able to find a new girl in a day and be happy." This is obviously normal comfort test garbage, so I reply in kind and pull her out of it and she offers to screw me again.

Here's where I goofed. I didn't STFU. I pulled the psychologist card and asked, "Do you actually want to have sex with me or are you just using sex because you want something from me, like some kind of emotional connection that you're not feeling right now?" She said the latter and once again affirmed that she doesn't ever really want sex, but she knows it's something she has to do to get other things out of me she wants, so she makes the best of it.

Despite all of this, she is adamant that there was only one time where she had sex out of duty (which doesn't reconcile well to me). Most of her "initiations" are things like, "If you want sex I won't say no" or "I'm not opposed to it right now" or "If you're in the mood I could deal with it." I often tell her, "If you want it, just say you want it." She replies, "But I don't want it, I just know you do." Obviously after those crap initiations I really don't ... but I also follow MMSLP's advice to keep my mouth shut and never turn down an initiation from the wife. She says it's not duty sex, but it sure feels like it a lot of the time, though we do have some passionate times too.

I know this is a lot of "she said" and I should look to her actions not her words. But in this case the two are well-aligned.


For some further background, she was raised in the churchy culture that suppresses female sexuality, telling them that it's dirty and wrong. She comments that one of the reasons she never really wants sex is because it just smells gross and feels sticky. There's a connotation that if you have to clean up afterward, it's dirty, which reaffirms what the church always told her. Her parents only told her horror stories about sex and pain and all that trash. She mentioned today that her mom always complained about how awful the honeymoon and "The only time she ever talked to me about my honeymoon was when she was at the doctor with me and she went on about doing stretching exercise because if I didn't it would be so excruciating that I'd pass out."

When I walk away from bad sex, she always blames it on things from 15 years ago when we were dating. She recognizes that I'm not the same man I was, but that she still sees me that way and can't get past it. No amount of psychology has helped her live in the present on this stuff.

I know what TRP and MRP would say to this. "Some situations are hopeless. You've got abundance. You can do better, so go get better." I don't want to hear that crap anymore. So what does RPChristians have to say about this? Is there hope? I do desperately want to leave, abandon my love for God and just go be with any one of the dozen or more girls who gave me their number last year, but I know it's not right and I care about my faith too much to make that move. If you try to tell me otherwise, screw you - I'm not going to listen. As one of the sidebar posts here says, I simply have a different set of priorities that I'm not willing to break over this. But does that mean I'm just in a crap situation that can't be fixed?

I'm reminded of 2 Cor. 12, where Paul talks about the thorn in his flesh. My sex-life is the thorn in my flesh right now. Do I just accept that God's grace is sufficient for me and make the most of a bad situation? Or is there something deeper that RP and godliness alone just can't fix? What else is there?