I'm having doubts about my relationship again.
Nothing has changed really, I just feel a bit stuck in a rut kinda thing. The things that were little and slightly annoying at the time seem to becoming this bigger annoyance.
It feels that maybe something is missing, i dont know. I love him, and I know he loves me, 90% of the time things are good, we laugh and joke, he's caring and considerate on the whole, but.... things like him being in the wrong- we will have a 'discussion' about it, it always ends with me apologising for my part (im always able to see when im in the wrong and rightly apologise for it) but he NEVER apologises, EVER. This is beginning to grate on me now.
We dont seem as close in some ways as we used to be. As alot of you know, ive had a few issues! I have consciously made an effort not to let them impact on the relationship, but previously if ive needed to talk whatever he has been there for me, a listener a shoulder to cry on. He's alway made it clear that he is there for me, whereas now it feels as though it would feel awkward to talk about stuff like that, to open up etc. It also feels like he has shut down a little, not being as open about things as he was before.
Intimacy has also dropped off in many ways. On a sexual side, well...things are not great. He has a lower sex drive than me, we have discussed this before and its something that we have compromised on i guess lol. But recently its not so much the amount of sex but the effort he puts in...its getting less and less, to the point that i am being left unsatisfied and frustrated.
In other ways- we used to be quite intimate/intense/deep in terms of closeness, but that is also not really happening anymore.
I realise that we are probably reaching the end of the 'honeymoon' stage, and maybe im feeling more sensitive the last few days than normal, some of the things i can compromise on, but some, if im honest, are deal breakers.
So would you say these things are normal for the end of the honeymoon stage? Or is there more to it?