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I hear you. I'm going to get out of here. Subject. I need it and I need it now. Dear Stephen Shirley,

I have been with my man for two years and we have lived together for the past year.

We have a really good relationship, but there's one problem.

He will not have any kind of sexual relationships with me,

sexual relations with me, and this has been going on since we started living together.

He says he wants to wait until we are married, but he has not even proposed.

We're not at that point in our relationship yet.

He told me that when God puts it in his heart, he will ask me to marry him.

When we first started dating, we had sex all of the time.

I am 56 years old, and he is 60 years old, and I think it's a little late in life for him to be practicing celibacy.

We sleep in the same bed every night and he won't even cuddle with me because he says that leads to intimacy.

He sometimes sleeps in the guest room if he thinks I'm trying to get frisky with him.

He wants us to go to a Christian counselor, so I can see things from his point

of view.

I do believe in waiting for sex before marriage, but at our age, I have a stressful job,

and some days I just want to come home and relieve some stress with some good old sex.

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