Thanks. Was nice to read this this morning. Wife reports her AP and I were the same size. She didn't commit adultery to experience a different sized penis. In fact, her AP has a belly on him and is older than me....don't think much of ANY part of him physically attracted her to him initially really.
My use of porn was destructive. Size anxiety was heightened as I viewed it. I am avg....not porn star huge nor teenage boy small. I did this to myself all on my own. Previous GF's nor my wife contributed to me feeling anxious about my avg. size.
Interesting how I can so easily accept and desire the MANY different shapes, sizes, ages of women....and am attracted to most all of the differences, find beauty in most every woman (God knew what he was doing when he created women).....and, yet, be so unaccepting of what 2 inches is or is not with regards to myself. I have researched scientific data on penis size...I am almost absolutely average in penis size when compared to the recorded numbers world wide. Meaning there are men smaller and there are men are bigger....but many men are within plus or minus an inch either side of me.
My wife did not program me to feel this way. I have done it to myself.
This post confirms what my wife lovingly and honestly has told me for almost 20 years....she knows I have desired to be bigger....she loves my size....she orgasms....she did not seek another man out for a different size or shape. She does make mention of thickness and she appreciates that aspect of me...but says above average length really doesn't do anything for her. And I get that too....most sensitivity is within the first 2-3 inches of a womans vagina....clitoral stimulation is key to orgasm.
Too much of my pre-A sex life revolved around technique and the big "O" and not enough around what is mentioned in this post.....true intimacy.
Both my wife and I have FOO issues that block intimacy.
I sometimes wonder if my fixation on my size, combined with my desire to be a better TECHNICAL lover was a way for me to avoid the really scary-to-me act of really connecting and growing true intimacy with my wife. I wonder if my fear of abandonment was influencing me to think "if I just have fun with my wife, when she leaves I wont get as hurt as I did when my Dad dropped out of my life at age 12". I know this is ignorant logic....but I am really starting to think this was a factor within me.
Most of my life I have lived with this underlying feeling that things that "comfort" me will one day instantly vanish....and I need to prepare for that. Except....you can't prepare for that. You can't control how other people will or will not interact with you.
To be intimate with someone, really truly intimate you are choosing to show true love to that person. You are saying to them "Babe, you are worth the risk to connect with. I am willing to risk being very hurt by you by moving past the "technical, romantic, surface level, initial" phase of love and into the "here is ALL of me, lets do this" realm."
Neither my wife nor I knew how to do that pre-A. We did our very best, we were ignorant to influences within us, but we fell short of true intimacy. We both felt something was missing...but didn't get much further than that into "discovery". Then my wife choose to have an A. It was more of the same, really.....surface level, romantic, showing only the best parts of you to another. She could have kept her AP and D me. She could have repeated her intimacy-limiting cycle. She didn't. I could have D her and found another woman who would have initially been flattered and grateful for a "great man like me"....but I would have repeated my same initimacy limiting cycle. But I didn't.
It is shocking how this journey reveals immaturity and insecurity within us....immaturity and insecurity that WE create for OURSELVES! Immaturity and insecurity that we are reluctant, nervous, lack ability, ???, to face until we absolutely have no other choice.
Kind of nice to read a non-affair specific post like this.
God be with us all.
[This message edited by blakesteele at 10:32 AM, January 3rd (Friday)]