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Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by Diamond098454(f): 9:34am On Dec 22, 2025
Dogalmighty17:
Withholding intimacy unto say na gold you carry for there? Any wife who does this is an unserious person.
I will keep saying this. Side chicks are the greatest contributors to the economic health of Nigeria. Side chicks are the reason why a great majority of marriages last long.

For crying out loud, all the men in the bible God loved had side chicks. Jacob carried OS. God told Hosea to go and get down with OS (Hosea 1:2). Abraham was given a loot. David had multiple women. Abi na Solomon own I go talk? Dude had more p--sy lying around than days in a year and yet him and God were leveling up. So WTF?

The same God that gave Moses the commandment against adultery ordered his prophet to go f--ck a prosti**te.

If she close leg, dem plenty outside. Go run your thing. No time for rubbish.
Hahaha hahaha you are very very funny
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by IbrahimSola: 9:36am On Dec 22, 2025
Father4all:
women don't have standards. They set it for men they don't like
I agree. Even the women know that they set standards for men they don't like. If you see when a woman likes a man, what they call standard disappears all of a sudden.

As a single man those years, I came to that conclusion. You see women that you probably hitherto considered way out of your league throwing caution in the air, dropping anything that shd be called standard, irrespective of religious standards, ethnic or social status, just to pursue you.

And then when you consider that some of these people were already married while some were in very serious relationships, I wondered whether there's anything called standard. I'm not saying this to spite women, men also do the same, irrespective of social or religious standing.

HUMANS (MEN, AND ESP WOMEN) ONLY SET STANDARDS FR THOSE THEY DON'T LIKE. Argue with yourself if you don't like my post. I'm telling you what you already know.
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by budaatum: 9:40am On Dec 22, 2025
DMCA:
if u are not pleased why stay?
Because you are not permanently useless, and because I know you have potential.

If you were permanently useless I wouldn't even have bothered being with you in the first place, and this discussion would not be happening.
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by budaatum: 9:42am On Dec 22, 2025
MasterTeeUSA:
Applies both ways..sefini
Yes, indeed it should. You shouldn't want to mount me if I were not pleasing you outside the bedroom, like if I rude to you and didn't keep a clean house and body and mind.
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by AZControversial: 9:43am On Dec 22, 2025
dahunsi12:
You dey mind that wicked-being?

After providing food, shelter, children schools, buy them clothes, send money to their parents etc they will still deny you intimacy and if their husband wish to go to the street they will still call their husband names. Most married women are just too wicked.
Many of them are just opportunists. After being saved from singlehood, they now want to call the shots as they please.....
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by budaatum: 9:45am On Dec 22, 2025
Jman06:
Sometimes I wonder how people enjoy sex without the full consent and participation of their partners. Before making love to your wives, guys, learn how to put her in the mood first. This may require prepping her psychologically by being more romantic prior and during the period
I'd add nice considerate you to my reverse harem if I were polyandrous!
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by Diamond098454(f): 9:46am On Dec 22, 2025
Married men should do the right thing

You can't be tormenting your wife and expect her to have feelings for you it's not done

Am too erotic in nature and if you are not romantic as a man it won't work for both of us

Some men don't know how to treat a woman

As a man or a husband what you dish out to your wife is what you get in return
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by budaatum: 9:47am On Dec 22, 2025
Eagleways:
Byjust satisfy his or her urge and save us your wicked manipulative logics. If you respect him yourself, you should know that his urge in marriage is his right
I wonder what makes you think I'd respect anyone who can't respect me.

Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by budaatum: 9:58am On Dec 22, 2025
Winterhaven:
You probably didn't read the full article, you must have read only the heading
I did read the article. Its a very nice article that I mostly agree with, and is why its not quoted so my response is not assumed to contradict it.

The below is from the article. Read it and reread my response in that context while considering both parties are rational beings, and not that I'm just a selfish brainless woman, as some of my quotees have assumed, who ignorantly married a brainless selfish man, which is not my case.

Marriage operates on shared access, shared duty, and shared care. When one partner unilaterally shuts down a core pillar of the relationship without justification, the system breaks down.
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by budaatum: 10:05am On Dec 22, 2025
Teymanhenry:
You'll understand when he goes out to mount another woman. You can only use that against a broken husband... You are not happy with him and will allow him to mount you but will collect money when he hands it over to you right?
Please, go out to mount another woman, I'm not that concerned if that's your prefered solution to a night of mount withholding. Just know you sound no different to a child who throws tantrums because mummy didn't give you sweets.

And keep your money too. My parents trained me well enough so I can earn even more than you can dream of.

Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by budaatum: 10:15am On Dec 22, 2025
omooba969:
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Why can't she prepare the man psychologically as well, by being more romantic. This is her matrimonial role...c'mmon na! 😡
This is where our society makes huge mistakes. It presumes gender roles and expects humans to fit in those roles like we are programed mindless beings, when the truth is, we live in an ever changing world where roles are not set in stone.

What would you expect my role to be, I wonder, when I'm home from the company I CEO because my parents invested loads in educating me so I can stand on my own two feet?

What sort of man do you think I'd be withholding mounting from and why?

And what do you think he'd do if I withhold mounting from him?

Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by ITspeed: 10:31am On Dec 22, 2025
This matter is very very dicey. Marriage without sex is not marriage anymore. Lets just face it. The women think they are in control all the time, well that is not the case even though the have some amount of control which is permitted or allowed by the man. Religiously speaking it is wrong for a woman or a man to with hold their bodies from each other. The holy books says it that a wise woman maketh her home!!!!! Sex has a whole lot of role it plays in fixing issues in marriage and when it is used as a tool of weapon then it make having a peaceful and smooth and understanding marriage difficult. Lets just tell ourselves the truth. No man will be okay when sex is denied him and even if he goes out to get it any day and anytime, that denial from his own will still affect him and affect the home and same goes to the woman. Understanding and respect cannot be ruled out at all but again diplomacy and maturity is key too.
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by drsibz66(m): 10:34am On Dec 22, 2025
budaatum:
I can't really understand why you'd want to mount me when I'm not pleased with you.

If you loved and respected me as you should, I'd want to mount you myself. But I guess you don't love nor respect me and just want to satisfy your urge despite my displeasure with you.

My advice? Use your hands!
The real advice is learn how to comprehend before giving an opionion

The truth is you didnt read to understand the write up. You also dont understand what marriage should be.

No human can ALWAYS be pleased with another human.There are always going to be times when you wont be happy with your partner, spouse or husband.. but resorting to withholding sex is an abuse. In those times communication and resettlement should be the goal not refusing sex as the has rightly said.

Its like saying the man when he is not pleased with his wife ,therefore has the right to withdraw his responsibility to his family. PEACE
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by drsibz66(m): 10:41am On Dec 22, 2025
Kobojunkie:
. Why should she, particularly if she is not happy in the relationship, as the other commentator suggested? The manipulation here is the expectation that the man should have his urges satisfied even when he is clearly not reciprocating the energy she has been pouring into the relationship. Even the prostitutes that the man probably runs off to on the side get so much more out of their encounters with him than the wife, so what incentive does she have to give her body to him? 🥱🥱


You just bringing up things the writer never wrote.. where did the writer say the woman shouldnt be respected. You have just manipulatively added the man not respecting his wife.. which is another topic entirely... your type will always find excuses to always do as you please

2. Respect in marriage is meant to be both ways, not one way, even in your marriage. So, why insist it is OK when the man does not respect his wife, but expects her to respect him regardless? 🥱🥱🥱
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by budaatum: 10:53am On Dec 22, 2025
drsibz66:
No human can ALWAYS be pleased with another human.There are always going to be times when you wont be happy with your partner, spouse or husband.. but resorting to withholding .....
Is mounting your main issue when either of us is not pleased with the other?

Man, will you let me mount you when you are not pleased with me?

Wouldn't we both want to mount each other and enjoy the mounting if we first resolve whatever it is that makes either of us withhold mounting?

Do you really love and care and respect me if we do not first resolve whatever it is that makes you want to mount when I am withholding?

And do you sincerely think you are in a healthy worthwhile marriage if I let you mount when I am displeased with you?

drsibz66:
Its like saying the man when he is not pleased with his wife ,therefore has the right to withdraw his responsibility to his family. PEACE
You have already withdrawn your responsibility to your family when you show no concern for the member of your family you want to mount without finding out why said family member is withholding!

And to be honest, I must ask myself why I married immature you to whom mounting means more to than whether I'm pleased or not.

I can just about imagine your mounting too. You'd climb on top of me and grunt a couple of times and come and be done in 5 minutes with no concern or consideration for my own coming or enjoyment.

Trust me husband, when I say I'd rather give you money to go mount olosho just so I can have peace!

Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by drsibz66(m): 11:04am On Dec 22, 2025
budaatum:
Is mounting your main issue when either of us is not pleased with the other?

Man, will you let me mount you when you are not pleased with me?

Wouldn't we both want to mount each other and enjoy the mounting if we first resolve whatever it is that makes either of us withhold mounting?

Do you really love and care and respect me if we do not first resolve whatever it is that makes you want to mount when I am withholding?

And do you sincerely think you are in a healthy worthwhile marriage if I let you mount when I am displeased with you?


You have already withdrawn your responsibility to your family when you show no concern for the member of your family you want to mount without finding out why said family member is withholding!

And to be honest, I must ask myself why I married immature you to whom mounting means more to than whether I'm pleased or not.

I can just about imagine your mounting too. You'd climb on top of me and grunt a couple of times and come and be done in 5 minutes with no concern or consideration for my own coming or enjoyment.

Trust me husband, when I say I'd rather give you money to go mount olosho just so I can have peace!
You are either a bitter person , hiding under the delusion of strong woman or you lack basic reading and comprehension skills.

WHY...

BECAUSE YOU LEFT OUT THE PART OF THE WRITE UP WHERE I SAID IN TIMES ISSUES... COMMUNICATION AND RESETTLEMENT SHOULD BE THE GOAL AND NOT REFUSING SEX OR WITHHOLDING RESPONSIBITY..
And you still come here to ask same questions.
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by ROK123(f): 12:46pm On Dec 22, 2025
When you treat your woman well, she will never have any excuse to ignore you when you need her, except she never loved you! No be by I paid for everything undecided
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by Mckraz01: 2:08pm On Dec 22, 2025
Dpsychologist:
Let’s stop dancing around uncomfortable truths.

Marriage is a partnership, not a power game.
And when one partner deliberately withholds intimacy not for health, safety, trauma, or mutual agreement, but as leverage that’s not “setting boundaries.”

That’s control.

We rightly call it Financial Abuse when one partner withholds money to dominate or punish.
The same logic applies when emotional or physical connection is weaponized to manipulate behavior.

This isn’t about entitlement.
It’s about mutual responsibility.

Marriage operates on shared access, shared duty, and shared care. When one partner unilaterally shuts down a core pillar of the relationship without justification, the system breaks. Trust erodes. Resentment compounds. Stability collapses.

Let’s be clear about these:

Consent is non-negotiable.
Health and safety come first.
No one owes performance.

But patterned deprivation used as punishment is not consent culture, it’s coercion.

Healthy marriages don’t run on ultimatums. They run on communication, empathy, compromise, and alignment.

If intimacy disappears, the question isn’t “Who’s wrong?” It’s “What’s broken and are both parties willing to fix it?”

Because marriage isn’t sustained by silence, avoidance, or moral grandstanding. It’s sustained by adult conversations and shared accountability.

Power plays destroy partnerships.
Honesty repairs them.

Choose maturity. Choose repair. Choose partnership.

#Marriage #EmotionalIntelligence #HealthyPartnerships #ConflictResolution #Adulting
It's also criminality
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by MKPUOGALIGA: 2:19pm On Dec 22, 2025
budaatum:
I can't really understand why you'd want to mount me when I'm not pleased with you.

If you loved and respected me as you should, I'd want to mount you myself. But I guess you don't love nor respect me and just want to satisfy your urge despite my displeasure with you.

My advice? Use your hands!
Why get married if you are not ready.

This issue of denying your husband s3x has ruined marriages.
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by eulogised: 3:39pm On Dec 22, 2025
Dpsychologist:
Let’s stop dancing around uncomfortable truths.

Marriage is a partnership, not a power game.
And when one partner deliberately withholds intimacy not for health, safety, trauma, or mutual agreement, but as leverage that’s not “setting boundaries.”

That’s control.

We rightly call it Financial Abuse when one partner withholds money to dominate or punish.
The same logic applies when emotional or physical connection is weaponized to manipulate behavior.

This isn’t about entitlement.
It’s about mutual responsibility.

Marriage operates on shared access, shared duty, and shared care. When one partner unilaterally shuts down a core pillar of the relationship without justification, the system breaks. Trust erodes. Resentment compounds. Stability collapses.

Let’s be clear about these:

Consent is non-negotiable.
Health and safety come first.
No one owes performance.

But patterned deprivation used as punishment is not consent culture, it’s coercion.

Healthy marriages don’t run on ultimatums. They run on communication, empathy, compromise, and alignment.

If intimacy disappears, the question isn’t “Who’s wrong?” It’s “What’s broken and are both parties willing to fix it?”

Because marriage isn’t sustained by silence, avoidance, or moral grandstanding. It’s sustained by adult conversations and shared accountability.

Power plays destroy partnerships.
Honesty repairs them.

Choose maturity. Choose repair. Choose partnership.

#Marriage #EmotionalIntelligence #HealthyPartnerships #ConflictResolution #Adulting
You're wise. And from the comments I'm reading here, I'm never giving my daughter's hand in marriage to just any man, I hope he's a whole human being whose fully formed mentally, physically, and so on. Very important because some of these comments are shocking
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by Kobojunkie:
drsibz66:
You just bringing up things the writer never wrote.. where did the writer say the woman shouldnt be respected. You have just manipulatively added the man not respecting his wife.. which is another topic entirely... your type will always find excuses to always do as you please
. Thinking a woman's body is there to serve your sexual pleasure is disrespectful,if you don't know this already, I suggest overhauling your mindset.🥱🥱🥱
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by Nnamdipapa(m): 5:58pm On Dec 22, 2025
budaatum:
I can't really understand why you'd want to mount me when I'm not pleased with you.

If you loved and respected me as you should, I'd want to mount you myself. But I guess you don't love nor respect me and just want to satisfy your urge despite my displeasure with you.

My advice? Use your hands!
The same goes the other way, you constantly make me angry, and if you want sex, I have advised her to get a Love Machine as I am never having a conjugal congress when not happy with you. Never!
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by drsibz66(m): 6:15pm On Dec 22, 2025
Kobojunkie:
. Thinking a woman's body is there to serve your sexual pleasure is disrespectful,if you don't know this already, I suggest overhauling your mindset.🥱🥱🥱
So where was that written in my write up. Or you also control my thoughts.. your gender ,assumptions and manipulations are 5 &6 .
You just bring out a statement from anywhere and start dwelling on it..
What part of my statement portrays and says a womans body is meant to serve mens sexual pleasure.
You are irredeemable ... Do what suits you cos you devoid of any reality or rational thoughts.
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by Kobojunkie:
drsibz66:
➜So where was that written in my write up. Or you also control my thoughts.. your gender ,assumptions and manipulations are 5 &6 . You just bring out a statement from anywhere and start dwelling on it.. What part of my statement portrays and says a womans body is meant to serve mens sexual pleasure. You are irredeemable ... Do what suits you cos you devoid of any reality or rational thoughts.
Stop arguing like an Odi! Marriage does not guarantee you sex, means you need to do your part to get your partner to consent to having sex with you, even in marriage. Go one corner, go chew on that, and allow people who already have their brains churning at effective capacity to continue the discussion already! 🥱🥱🥱
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by budaatum: 7:10pm On Dec 22, 2025
drsibz66:
You are either a bitter person , hiding under the delusion of strong woman or you lack basic reading and comprehension skills.

WHY...

BECAUSE YOU LEFT OUT THE PART OF THE WRITE UP WHERE I SAID IN TIMES ISSUES... COMMUNICATION AND RESETTLEMENT SHOULD BE THE GOAL AND NOT REFUSING SEX OR WITHHOLDING RESPONSIBITY..
And you still come here to ask same questions.
Sir, I did not miss out anything, and perhaps it's you who is seeking for disagreement or can not read to see when you are agreed with and when you are not. For I'm very certain, or I at least hope, that we will not be mounting each until we have communicated and settled our issues. Or will you enjoy mounting me when I'm unhappy with you or you are unhappy with me?

If we do what you call "COMMUNICATION AND RESETTLEMENT", which indeed "SHOULD BE THE GOAL", there would be no need for either of us to withhold mounting each other. After all, COMMUNICATION AND RESETTLEMENT will resolve whatever issues we might have, so why would I, after we've communicated, which involves you hearing my grievance and placating me and me honouring you, then still withhold mounting when our mounting should be the crowning acceptance of each other?
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by budaatum: 7:17pm On Dec 22, 2025
Nnamdipapa:
The same goes the other way, you constantly make me angry, and if you want sex, I have advised her to get a Love Machine as I am never having a conjugal congress when not happy with you. Never!
Yes, it indeed does the go other way too.

You will not love me nor likely want to mount me if I make you angry. And I better please you if I want mounting from you, or go get myself a Love Machine if that satisfies me more than you can.

If you didn't have potential, and hadn't pleased me or I hadn't pleased you before, we wouldn't even have married in the very first place, and mounting each other would never be considered.
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by Kobojunkie: 7:23pm On Dec 22, 2025
Nnamdipapa:
➜The same goes the other way, you constantly make me angry, and if you want sex, I have advised her to get a Love Machine as I am never having a conjugal congress when not happy with you. Never!
She gets a lovemachine, while you get yourself a sidechick? Abeg, declare that marriage an open marriage or you two should divorce already! 😑😑😑
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by budaatum: 7:42pm On Dec 22, 2025
joseph1832:
so the only reason why you'd want your husband to mount you, is when you're please with him?
No, the only reason why I'd want my husband to mount me, is not only when I am pleased with him, though I definitely will not be mounted when he makes me unhappy.

I want to mount my husband because he is the man I love and married, which I did because he is kind and respectful and loving and caring and considerate, and I want to show him I care for him and love him in return. After all, another word for mounting is to make love to each other in a caring loving relationship.

And in fact, when I don't want to be mounted, he will understand and wait until I am ready, because he is not some selfish pig who thinks of his own enjoyment alone, or I wouldn't have married pig in the first place.
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by budaatum: 7:48pm On Dec 22, 2025
MKPUOGALIGA:
Why get married if you are not ready.

This issue of denying your husband s3x has ruined marriages.
I am ready, and that's why I married him in the first place. And I want to remain married to him and raise the child we have and even have more, which means mounting.

But if one night of refusing to let myself be mounted by him is what results in marriage being ruined, then so be it and good riddance. Because, if it wasn't this instance of mounting refusal that broke our marriage, it would likely be something equally as immature on his part, and I should quickly accept I made a bad choice and move on instead of letting him destroy me by turninh me in to his mountee on tap.
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by Nnamdipapa(m): 10:01pm On Dec 22, 2025
Kobojunkie:
She gets a lovemachine, while you get yourself a sidechick? Abeg, declare that marriage an open marriage or you two should divorce already! 😑😑😑
I have discussed the option of a divorce which I am very much in favour but as an uber religious person, she is vehemently against a divorce and would not hear of it. I may have to run away to Uganda or Kenya one of these days. lol
Re: Withholding Intimacy In Marriage Is Abuse by Nnamdipapa(m): 10:03pm On Dec 22, 2025
budaatum:
No, the only reason why I'd want my husband to mount me, is not only when I am pleased with him, though I definitely will not be mounted when he makes me unhappy.

I want to mount my husband because he is the man I love and married, which I did because he is kind and respectful and loving and caring and considerate, and I want to show him I care for him and love him in return. After all, another word for mounting is to make love to each other in a caring loving relationship.

And in fact, when I don't want to be mounted, he will understand and wait until I am ready, because he is not some selfish pig who thinks of his own enjoyment alone, or I wouldn't have married pig in the first place.
You have a good point and I totally agree with you. I stop mounting when I stop loving you.
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