Other people’s dreams are never interesting…except when they’re about sex. If you’ve got a good one, our dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg just might tell you what it means! Click here to submit yours (18 and older only for dream interpretations, please). This week, a reader asks Lauri:

My wife refuses sex, saying she doesn’t like sex any more. (We have 2 kids; we had good & wild sex before marriage.) I was ‘active’ before I met her, and I know she resented it that I had other women before her. I am the 1st man she had sex with (although she did have just one boyfriend before, but they never went all the way). 

I cant go on without sex , been trying to lower my exceptions to help her, but she wont compromise.  We’ve been married 10 years, the sex stopped for around the 7th year onwards. I’m 45, she’s 39.

I really thought she turned frigid, until one night not long ago, she was having sex in her dream and said, ‘Harder now, I want you to come inside me.’  I was shocked, and told her; she avoided my questions, didn’t confirm or deny it.  She doesn’t allow me access to her phone and has become more withdrawn than before. Now I’ve been wrecked, I know I love my kids more then anything/anyone, I want to be the best Dad for them and come what may, I’ll be there for them. 

But as a husband, I’m broken beyond words. I’ve decided to move on (it’s hard, but I must), with or without her, for my kids and my sake, I must make a better life for us. As a husband, I just need to know the truth, no matter how bad it is or not, I have to know. 

Did what she say (she was also aroused as her body was moving during the dream) indicate she’s been cheating ?

Lauri: What a tough situation you have.  A sexless marriage is like beer without alcohol. It’ll quench your thirst but isn’t all that much fun. As far as your wife’s sex dream, it isn’t really an indication that she is having an affair. The body doesn’t know the difference between a real event and a dream event so it will react to the event in the dream as if it were real, which explains her movements. There are a whole host of reasons as to why she may have had a sex dream. So no, I would not say it is an indication that she’s cheating. It does, however, suggest that there is still sexual desire in her somewhere. 

I would be more concerned about how she won’t allow you access to her phone than I would be about the sex dream. That’s a much bigger red flag that should be addressed. In my opinion, trust is first and foremost when it comes to a successful marriage.  Sex is the icing on the cake.  Please keep us posted.

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