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I've only been married six months and I don't want sex?

We were best friend before we got married, we share six kids, three his and three mine. Our life is great, busy yes, but great. The deal is I started taking Lexapro about six weeks ago for anxiety and now I have NO sex drive whatsoever. He's also taking it for the same reason and he is the same way. We have an autistic nine year old and so the medicine just helps with dealing with that (please don't judge) that's a whole job in itself raising our disabled son. ANYWAY....we aren't really stressing about it or anything because the doctor said this would most likely happen I was just wondering what you all thought? Is this something that will pass after a few months when our bodies get used to the meds? Just wondering if anyone had some personal experience. Thanks.!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    have you all thought about therapy for your anxiety instead of medicine. that should really help out.

  • 1 decade ago

    anti-anxiety meds can cause sexual side effects. it may improve with time.

    dealing with an autistic child is very challenging and there are other things that can work if the sex problem is causing a problem. it would stand to reason that the lack of sex may cause even more problems and its important that you both have special time together, especially given the fact that you are dealing with a special needs child.

    i would discuss it with the dr who gave it to you, there are a lot of other meds available that may have less side effect.

    good luck to you!

  • faith
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    1 decade ago

    I took lexapro for about a year and it caused severe sexual side effects. I wouldn't want sex hardly at all and when I did I couldn't climax. It was VERY frustrating to me and my partner. I asked my doctor about the side effects and he said that Lexapro does that so I asked to be put on something else.

  • 1 decade ago

    Lexapro for anxiety you say....well its not working- seriously- you are now anxious about sex. Not judging you at all, but just pointing out the obvious.

  • 5 years ago

    nicely you have each and every perfect to be disenchanted and pissed off and greater importantly he's being insensitive and quite controlling and stupid to even think of he can or ought to flow out together with his friends and flow away YOU yet yet back homestead on my own. i do no longer think of so!!! you are able to desire to no longer in elementary terms have an exceedingly extreme verbal replace right here yet you are able to desire to stand up to your desires and tell him that that's in simple terms no longer suitable that he is going out like this without YOU. He could desire to be taking YOU out with him - in simple terms the two considered one of you. This early right into a marriage is an exceptionally purple FLAG right here. we are going to paintings on that's not a thank you to examine this. And that's not A 'guy situation' in elementary terms for the checklist. i've got been married for 23 years and in no way as quickly as on account that we've been married has my husband needed or needed to flow out "WITH the adult males". Is there some component to the marriage VOWS that he (or you) do no longer keep in mind making approximately "have & to hold from this present day forward...." committing to YOU and so on and so on? His single existence ENDED once you 2 married. you're meant to be ONE, united, a pair and any relaxing ought to in lots of situations (no longer consistently probably) incorporate YOU too! He desires a extreme awaken call. If he wasn't arranged to certainly ACT MARRIED to you and be dedicated to then you he grew to become into too youthful or immature to get married. there is desire right here of direction - yet you're permitting this habit and probably AFRAID to stand up for your self - and that desires to alter.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I would have the doctor change the meds, or have no meds at all and see about dealing with the Autism in other ways.

  • 1 decade ago

    maybe because it's too many kids around now that crazy i only have one and that's a enough

  • 1 decade ago

    no.

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