[DoughtyOne]

This is an important topic. While I agree with Dennis here considerably, I would like to hear his comments on mood. I don’t think mood should be a frequent consideration, but I do believe it can be an honest consideration.

[goldstategop]

Mood may be important to individuals but two people in a relationship or a marriage realize they have to give each other what they want to be happy. A woman who denies a man sex will not have a good husband but a resentful and sullen roommate. For a man a woman who is not demonstrating her interest in him in the most elemental way possible is merely a good friend not someone he's in love with. The fact of sex to human nature is ineluctable but we rarely give much to thought to why it gives satisfaction to a man that he can't be given in any other way. And that's more than physical release since sex is usually a man's way into expressing for a woman what he can't tell her in words. The wise woman will understand what it is when he is having sex with her.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Vaduz]

Some times nature requires a bone to be cracked to remove the stress.

[PapaBear3625]

I don’t think mood should be a frequent consideration, but I do believe it can be an honest consideration.

I get up early every morning to go to work, in order to provide for the needs of my wife and children. My "mood" has nothing to do with it. If I followed my "mood", then I would be home in the basement playing video games. Instead, I do what's necessary to provide for the happiness and well-being of those I love. It's not out of line to expect similar consideration in return.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I don’t think mood should be a frequent consideration, but I do believe it can be an honest consideration.

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I take the “mood” issue to refer to “I’m not feeling particularly frisky,” as opposed to “I’m feeling ill/sad/exhausted.”

[sit-rep]

Mood...

Why is it, when they are in the worst of moods, they fight the sexual advances off for a while and then give in. 50 to 30 seconds before they orgasm, YOU feel like you’re being used!!

Then, bam... no more mood... But now you have to wait till they stop talking!! lol...

[jschwartz]

I think he is suggesting that if you are frequently too sad or angry for sex, you’ve got a bigger problem than he can address in an article. If you mean some women have low libido, it could be treatable medically before the marriage is not treatable.