Guest: Jeannie Burnett
In today’s episode, guest Jeannie Burnett talks about realizing her husband of 25 years is asexual. For years Jeannie tried to find answers to her sexless marriage. Sex was “mechanical and cold,” she says. “I tried to fix myself all those years, and nothing worked.” After an emotional breakdown and the reckoning that it had been 10 years since she and her husband had last been intimate, Jeannie researched until she found her answer and her explanation: her husband was asexual.
On this show we discuss what asexuality is and isn’t’, how Jeannie found support, and how she is rebuilding her life after divorce.
Thank you for this episode. Going on 20 years married to an asexual man. There’s so much shame about sex and being an older woman and the fact that nobody talks about it. Divorce is the next step.
Could you tell me the support group Jeannie found on facebook and online please?
Hi Lara, It may have been AVEN, https://www.asexuality.org
I’m also looking for the Facebook group. I searched straight spouse network but the closest thing that came up was straight spouse support group. Is this it? My husband came out last night. I’m feeling lost and confused and like my world has been shattered.
Hi Jen, If you fill out a support request here, you will be connected to support: https://ourpath.org/personal-support/