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Am I With the Wrong Person, or Do I Just Have Low Libido?

The two answers you're stuck between are both wrong. The third is about something no one taught you to do.

By Juliette Karaman · 26 July 2026

There is a question women type into their phones at midnight, screen dimmed, while the person in question sleeps beside them.

Am I with the wrong person, or do I just have low libido?

You love him. You can list the reasons. Still, when his hand finds you in the dark, something in you goes quietly somewhere else.

You lie there running the two verdicts like a courtroom, and both of them read like a sentence.

Part One: Why "the wrong person" is almost never it

I have spent fifteen years with women holding this exact question. The answer is almost never the one they are choosing between.

The woman who is genuinely with the wrong person usually knows it, in a way that is hard to unknow. Contempt. A respect that quietly died. A trust that broke and never mended.

The woman asking is it him is a different woman. She loves him. She is confused, and confusion grabs the first clean explanation it can find, the one the internet hands her: you have grown apart, you should probably leave.

It is tidy. It is also, most of the time, wrong.

Part Two: The thing no one taught you to do

Here is what actually sits underneath most "I think I have a low libido."

You were never taught to know what you want, or to ask for it out loud.

You learned to be easy. To go along. To make the tea the way he likes it and call that love. Somewhere in there, your own wanting got so quiet that you genuinely cannot tell anymore whether it is gone, or whether it was simply never asked to speak.

Try this tonight, and watch what happens in your body. Forget sex for a moment. This is about tea.

Say out loud, to him, exactly how you take your tea, the real and specific version. "Bengal Spice, in the red mug with the thin rim, water just off the boil, a splash of oat milk, one honey, bag out at two minutes because it goes bitter after."

Most women get three words in and start to laugh, then shrink. "Never mind, it doesn't matter."

That flinch is the whole thing. How you ask for tea is exactly how you ask for touch. If naming the small want feels like too much, of course the big wants have gone silent.

So practise on the tea. Say it fully. Let him make it exactly that way. Receive it without apologising or fixing it for him. Then do one more round, with touch: ask him to touch your arm exactly the way you want it, and adjust him until it is right.

You are teaching your body that your wanting is allowed to take up space. That is the ground desire grows back in.

Most women have never done this once, so let me show you where it goes, and what your body is actually waiting for.

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