I (35F) am no longer attracted to my boyfriend (30M). AIO?
TLDR; After a series of occurrences that majorly broke my trust, I am having a hard time wanting to participate in any physical intimacy with my boyfriend. AIO? How does someone get past this block? I do hope things get better.
I want to start this off by saying I feel awful for feeling this way. I would love some insight on how I can get past this. My boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years. The relationship kind of started rocky because of his ex-wife/BM being really nasty to me. Then they both lied to me about being divorced (they claimed they were divorced, then that shockingly the divorce didn’t get filed correctly, then to find out there never was a filing of the divorce in the first place). More recently, I was driving his vehicle because it got better gas mileage than my truck. Well one day after walking back from the gym at work, it was suddenly gone. Long story short, homie didn’t realize that the car wasn’t paid off (he was active duty military for 10 years, and apparently they don’t re-po vehicles of active duty military members), and the car got repossessed while I was at the gym. Ofc I had no clue, so here I am running to my boss that my boyfriend’s car got stolen, only to find out once they called the police to report it that it was actually repossessed. Some co-workers heard me say that my car was stolen, because ofc that’s what I could only assume, and it was absolutely mortifying.
All of this has caused an immense amount of stress for me. Most of the time I did want to leave the relationship, but he’s honestly a great person. Everyone in my circle likes him alot and thinks he’s great for me. He’s kind, empathetic, and very understanding. He’s just makes REALLY dumb decisions sometimes and it’s frustrating that his life drama that actually doesn’t involve me, affects me greatly.
So as far as no longer being attracted to him…it’s honestly 90% an emotional thing, not necessarily a physical thing. If I’m being honest, I wish he took care of himself better like he did in the beginning of our relationship. But it happens to us all sometimes. I just don’t trust the guy fully, which closes me off emotionally, and that closes me off to any physical intimacy. I used to have an extremely high libido when we first got together, but after everything it’s almost non-existent. My boyfriend used to have a very low drive at the beginning of our relationship (very recently he admitted that it wasn’t because he wasn’t attracted to me, it was the stress of lying about the divorce or lack there )his drive non-existent. Now he has an incredibly high drive after he has gotten all his things settled (and is no longer as stressed). He was able to pay off his car with one payment thanks to selling some of our pokemon collection. We still hug,kiss (mostly pecks), and cuddle, I just have zero desire for physical intimacy beyond that. I do want things to get better, so any thoughts are welcome.
AIO for not being attracted to my boyfriend enough to initiate physical intimacy?
Posted Jul 10, 2026, 5:49 PM UTC