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For us both, really. Its caused a lot of strain on our relationship. I am more than happy to masturbate, but it doesn't scratch the same itch for me as sex with my wife - lack of intimacy, I guess, but also just I love pleasuring her and I miss that. My wife finds masturbation to be wholly unsatisfying and gets outwardly frustrated if she goes solo for a while.
We both work full time and are juggling taking care of the baby, so many days we just don't have the bandwidth to both have free time and privacy at the same time and thus initiate sex. Usually we're worn out by the time the baby is asleep, and even if one or both of us is in the mood we just don't have the energy. My wife has expressed that she feels rejected and unattractive because of it, and I find myself depressed and also a bit unattractive if I'm being honest.
But we are good communicators with each other, and we're working through it. Its just hard.
The baby stages are SO HARD. For many reasons that aren't as obvious as the most common ones like sleep. Sometimes just committing to snuggling naked was enough to reconnect and sometimes it would lead to sex that we didn't think we had the energy for. Lots of little compromises until the babies get a little older.
Mostly you two just have to get through this together and if your communication is good, you'll be good. They grow way faster than it seems when you're in the early trenches of parenthood!