Steve,
I thank you for your prompt reply. This thread works so much better when issues are debated in good time even if it wasn’t your intention to be doing so at this stage of the year. I do think even you though must appreciate that your recent posts have created both a change and a finality of sorts to your narrative.
I’ve noticed before that you sometimes have a politician’s habit of seemingly misinterpreting something then answering the wrong question. It seems your way of avoiding what you might not want to talk about but at the same time can’t really avoid. So let me just deal with the points you made.
Firstly, I didn’t say where you are is the end of things. It may be pretty much the end of your PIV sex life but that is not news, only a continuation of the status quo and perhaps as you say the start of a new different chapter in your lives together. There are clearly risks in this, but they exist whatever you do together and you are both clearly okay with where you are and seemingly going so there is no reason at present to be alarmed or concerned. You clearly love your current life with Sue, and Sue must clearly love you or she would have left by now. You don’t have to change back to be happy together, which is a good job because it is now almost impossible to change back.
I didn’t try to say that your PIV activity planned for New Year is fake. I was maybe strong in saying it didn’t mean much in the long term but I did not intend to belittle it. Quite the reverse, I’m sure it will be active, enjoyable, bitter sweet afterwards and that both of you will get all you imagine you want out of it. To the extent that your narrative afterwards will start afresh all the questions around, “Well if it was so good, why would prefer your supervised masturbation every week when you could be doing that instead.” No matter. What I will say is that as a sexual activity, it will not be Sue’s best sex, best orgasms or best overall sexual experience of the last 12 months. Although it will of course be yours. That is why - for Sue, it will be a less enduring memory as next year rolls on. As ever, I remain intrigued by how your memory of it will stick or fade.
You say again I am wrong about Sue’s sexual feelings for you. As I say above, I am certain that Sue is looking forward to making love with you at New Year. I am certain that she will love the closeness that your night(s) will create. But as we say in the UK, you can’t have the penny and the bun. Sue is now your Alpha. She gets sexually what she wants, when she wants pretty much. It has been her decision for instance not to routinely see Paul during the week. It is her decision to not sexually (PIV) engage with you. If she wanted to, if she got so much out of it that she needed to, she would find a way to make it happen. If she needed to make love, she would do it. 2018 has shown you and us that she doesn’t want to. However you dress this up with desire for denial, with her wanting an exclusive feeling with Paul, the fact remains that Sue doesn’t want PIV sex with you, let alone the bareback sex that we all know she regards as being the best and closest experience (and which she is still denying herself and you at New Year).
You asked me directly about how couples cope when one becomes incapable of sex. I think Raks did a good job of answering that. I too don’t regard it as the same as desiring to disengage. The feeling of rejection in the opposite party would in most cases put severe stress on the relationship. In cases where incapability was there though, I do think that cuckolding could be a solution where clear boundaries and understanding are present. The sex may be more enjoyable physical therapy than making love, but I’m sure that in a truly loving relationship the non performing partner would get joy is seeing (or hearing about) their active partner being fulfilled. Don’t kid yourself though, you are not in this incapable category.