
Originally Posted by
confused_lady
Should I be upset...
Chances are, you can resolve this. If you succeed, the process will teach you how to solve other issues in your relationship. But you will have to work on it and you will have to create and sustain a frame of mind that's all about learning. You need to learn and use new skills.
First of all, you can realize that his falling asleep
most likely doesn't mean what you think it means. You think it means something about you, that you are not pleasing him enough, or not attractive enough, etc. Maybe you are right, and maybe not, but your interpretation hurts, you mostly, and because you get hurt and angry, you spread the pain to him.
The truth is that you don't know why he is falling asleep. Maybe what is going on in his body is a medical problem. (I suspect it's not, and that you have a relationship problem.) But you don't know. He could be in bed with the porn queen of his dreams and fall asleep for all you know. So, you and he have to find out before you jump to conclusions.
The main point is that he's not doing this
to you to hurt you. This is what's happening for him and he might feel terrible about it but also too ashamed to talk.
So, consider the concept that the story going on in your mind is not the story going on in his mind. You are just having very different experiences. There is no culprit trying to do bad, just two people whose sex life fell down a rabbit hole and who got frustrated and outraged.
The skill you need to learn is communicating. Get yourself and him to an NLP-based couples workshop. Google NLP (neurolinguistic programming) to find out more.
It does bother me, makes me feel very hurt and angry. Not to mention not attractive enough for him or pleasing him good enough..
The second skill is managing your anger, which, by the way, gets sparked by your interpretation of what is going on when he falls asleep, evoking your story again. Blaming him for falling asleep, while understandable, is misguided. You might as well blame him for his singing voice, however good or bad that might be, or his shoe size.
Instead of being the outraged victim of the situation, act as a partner. Support him in finding the cause and the remedy. Don't turn your expression of this or any other problem into an attack. You can't fight your way through this sort of thing.
All that said, you have the right and obligation to yourself to let him know that you want the problem solved and you want a good, balanced sex life. If he is using porn as a stimulant, who knows, he might wake himself up. If he's using it as an escape, and has outrageous fantasies, sex chat sessions with strangers, starts staying up half the night, or gets weird otherwise, insist on therapy for the two of you.
If he won't go, you go alone and work on your stuff. Learn how to express yourself in ways that make it safe for both of you to tell each other the truth. In that context of safety you can grow the relationship.