Sex File: I'm extremely sexually frustrated, but I don't feel like having sex with him

Everything my partner does irritates me. Picture: iStock

Everything my partner does irritates me. If he is in the same room as me I want to escape. He thinks we'd be getting on better if we were having more sex. The irony is I'm extremely sexually frustrated, but I don't much feel like having sex with him. If we do manage to be intimate I find myself too annoyed to enjoy it. How do we break this vicious cycle?

All couples go through phases where they get on each other's nerves. Sometimes when people feel constantly ratty and impatient with someone, it can mean that there are things going on beneath the surface. These may be things that a person is consciously or subconsciously not ready to deal with, but suppressing any kind of anxiety makes people irritable and inevitably, when that happens, they end up taking out their fears and frustrations on those they are closest to.