Talk about talking in a coded language. I am sure almost any female would understand instantly what this "hovering" was about.

Me, being a bloke wondered if it was about compulsive vacuuming ;)

Imagine if "Mark" wasn't hovering, then the discussion would be about;

"He doesn't find me attractive anymore"

or

"He doesn't find me sexually attractive anymore"

or

"Maybe, he is having an affair?"

The other side of the coin is that the more Mark's 'hovering' is rejected, the more half hearted his attempts at intimacy become. The more he will fear being rejected and possibly he will withdraw more.

She could always try being a bit more loving and giving.

When the boot is on the other foot and the man has a lower sex drive than his wife, the whine and manblaming is the same. It would be all Mark's fault again. Mark would be 'uwell' both physically and mentally - definitely the latter. He would be given a short time to recover' his senses, then the verbal battery would rev up and the retribution. Along with speculative gossip that runs him down everywhere and in every way.

This man cannot comfort a woman. No man can do that, can he Simone and of course you are right to have him own too, his own disqualification him too for disqualifying himself from any sharing of intimacy. Of course he is responsible anyhow for the woman's pain, shame, humiliation and feelings of inadequacy etc (the list develops daily).

The annual damning of all men that is White Ribbon Day has just passed. Rosie Batty and her mates have thoroughly busted men as being controlling and dangerous. The Prime Minister has echoed them and the men in the federal Parliament have taken a special drubbling from a not so rosy lecture.

Women are fools to have anything to do with men. They should run from having anything at all to do with them. So, what in hell was your woman friend thinking of that she didn't have a 'Wonderful Woman' as her spouse instead, Simone? Please explain.

Simone,

You have to get the foreplay right. I used to go straight to sleep, but wake up about three o'clock, go for a leak, come back and poke her gently in the back and say "Hey, are you awake ?" Seemed to work, at least once a fortnight.

Joe

If you must be the one who initiates the poke with Princess, there is plenty of choice out there. Jack her up and move her out.

Gays can have marriage. Frankly whiney (most) women are just not worth it, especially as once one of their friends doesn't like you, you're out with everything gone.