

Maybe a few sessions in a sensory deprivation tank would actually help get you back on that path sooner than later. Your concern indicates that you’ll find a way back to regular sex with your partner when it feels right. Right now, your primary task is to take care of your new babies. Cut yourself a break-you are doing well, and you can only do so much.


Couples who have kids frequently see their sex lives disrupted, at least for a while-not just for physical reasons (vaginal intercourse is recommended to resume not until six weeks after giving birth) but also as a result of things like fatigue. In any scenario, this is enough justification that you not be touched, but in your particular case (as a mother of infant twins), you have two squirming bundles of justification. You state it quite clearly: You don’t want to be touched. In this specific case, I think you’d benefit most from listening to your body over the nagging voice in your head. Do I just have to accept that this is how life is until my kids are a little more independent, or is there a way to get over this feeling and enjoy my husband ’s touch again? I feel badly that I ’m giving all of myself to my kids and there ’s not much of me left for my husband (or me).

We still have sex about once a week or so, which I think it pretty good considering that we have three little kids, but right now I feel like it ’s just another thing to check off the to-do list. What I ’d really like is to get into a sensory deprivation tank for a couple of hours. By the time my husband gets home, I don ’t want to be touched anymore. (We ’re working on it.) I feel like I ’m never not being touched by someone. More often than not, at least one kid ends up in bed with me at night. I spend most of my day holding one or both babies, and sometimes, after school, I end up holding both babies, the big kid, and our dog. I ’m a stay-at-home mom of three kids: a pre-schooler and infant twins.
