Sometimes asexual people get married and tolerate sex they may not desire because they’ve been taught they’re supposed to want it, believing it’s just part of being a good spouse. There have been incidents in asexual communities of married asexual people finding out about asexuality and realizing “Hey, lots of people have felt the way I feel,” and it may lead them to negotiate their relationship differently. Unfortunately this does sometimes lead to marital strife and subsequent breakups, but this is generally only in the case of people who insist their (newly discovered) asexual partner must
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