Counseling and Communication
[QUOTE=FarEastMan;2799073]I just feel disgusted about myself for needing to step out, I need someone to hold me, and my lady won't do that. Just not sure what to do.[/QUOTE]If you think spending some $$ for a provider who will snuggle and hold you is the way to resolve those feelings of inadequacy when you already feel disgusted about the thought, then you are on the wrong board. I'm not trying to tell you what to do, but many of us have been in your shoes and know the feeling. After 20+ years of marriage with no, and I mean zero, intimacy from my SO for a period of three years I ventured out. I felt inadequate as a man and human. This was after counseling and working on communication issues but none of it helped. So after I felt I gave it my best shot, I found a hot freckled stripper and had some fun. So my advice is counseling and in the sessions when things are not proceeding down the path you need, plain and simply say. "If you can't show me the affection that I deserve after X many years of commitment to you and allow me to show you the affection I feel FOR you, then I will find it somewhere else. This is not a threat, just what I have determined I need in my life as a male and a human being with normal feelings and desires of reciprocal intimacy of some type".
After that you may not feel so guilty. Mine didn't care, she said go forth and sew your oats. That's when I found the stripper and sew away I did!