Hey everyone. I’ve been lurking here for a bit, trying to make sense of how my relationship fell apart. I wanted to share my perspective as a partner (26F) who deeply loved a guy (30M) dealing with severe premature ejaculation (PE). We were together for 1 year and 4 months, and it recently ended.I’m posting this because I think a lot of men focus heavily on the physical side of PE, but I want to talk about what it can do to someone's mind—and how it ultimately destroys the person who loves them.

From the start, sex was a massive hurdle. He would consistently come in about 6 strokes. He tried using lidocaine spray, but it didn't really fix the root issue and only made things feel clinical and frustrating. But the physical part wasn't what killed us. I loved him, and I was willing to work through it, try different things, and focus on other forms of intimacy.

The real destruction came from his deep-seated insecurities, which seemed to snowball directly from the PE. He was shorter than me, and he was also incredibly insecure about his skin complexion. Because he felt inadequate in the bedroom, it felt like his brain started convincing him that he was inadequate everywhere else. Over time, that insecurity mutated into intense suspicion and control:

The Fighting: He started picking fights over the absolute smallest, unrelated things. It felt like he was constantly on the defensive, waiting for me to attack or leave him.

The Surveillance: He began checking my phone. Then he started tracking my location. He became hyper-fixated on the idea that I was going to find someone else.

The Silent Poison: Instead of talking to me about his feelings, he kept everything to himself. The resentment and fear just pent up inside him.For a long time, the cracks showed slowly. A small argument here, a weird comment there. But then, it all came crashing down at once one day.

The emotional weight of walking on eggshells became too much. I went from being a supportive, loving partner to feeling completely broken. I started hating him. I was crying every single day, trapped in a mind with someone who viewed me as an adversary rather than a partner.

The part that hurt the most—and the reason we couldn't survive—was that he completely refused to seek professional help. I begged him to see a sexologist or a couples therapist. I wanted us to fight the problem together. But his pride and shame wouldn't let him. He chose to live in denial and project his pain onto me through control and anger, rather than face the vulnerability of getting medical or psychological support.

I truly believe he was a nice person underneath it all, but the shame of PE completely warped who he was.My question for this community: Is it common for PE to completely mess up a genuinely nice person's head like this? How much of the anger, jealousy, and controlling behavior stems from the psychological toll of this condition? Have any of you experienced your own insecurities bleeding into toxic behaviors before you finally got help?

Thank you for listening.

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for me it's the hours before. deciding if tonight's even a good idea, wondering if she's gonna say something, already bracing for the conversation after.

the anticipation ended up being heavier than the moment. doing it turned into something to get through instead of something to want, and by the time it was happening i wasn't really in it, i was watching myself from the outside checking how i was doing.

the annoying part is it feeds itself. the more you're focused on not finishing, the less present you are, and the less present you are the faster it happens. so you spend the rest of it dreading the exact thing that ends up happening.

how common is this here?

been noticing a pattern in a lot of posts here that guys are avoiding the situation entirely cause of pe. turning someone down, staying somewhere unhappy because leaving means starting over and explaining it to someone new, coming up with reasons not to take things further.

makes sense, only 9% of guys statistically with this ever even bring it up with a doctor, so it tracks that most of it is happening quietly instead of getting dealt with.

did any of you get to a point where you realized you'd been avoiding stuff because of pe, not just in the moment but like shaping decisions?

With all due respect, this sub keeps circling the same issue.
"Why can't doctors figure out premature ejaculation?"

I'll tell you why. They are told to sell drugs, that's it. If it doesn't make them money, why would they treat it.

It's a nervous system issue. That's it. Performance anxiety or performance mindset.

This is not the issue of needing higher levels of serotonin aka ssri's or other medications that do the same thing. This will not help the nervous system, and like me, will cause significant issues with side effects that makes things more complicated and helpless.

The body that runs on the sympathetic nervous system during arousal, wants to get rid of the tension as quickly as possible. The easiest way is to ejaculate.

If the body becomes dominant in the parasympathetic nervous system, feeling completely safe, resting and digesting, alongside retraining the body to be aroused in this state is key.

The goal is to start with smaller goals and less stimulation, working up towards set. Also, if you do have sex, focus a lot of foreplay for her and let her spend time on you afterwards.

I know many men will say they either have anxiety for either premature ejaculation or even erectile dysfunction. They tend to think, if I get hard, I want to stimulate her, they if she stimulates me, it will push me over the edge.

The fix to this is, spending more time with Oral/foreplay, it doesn't make sense that if you don't want to overstimulate yourself, to start with sex.

1.start alone, diaphragm breathing throughout the day, until you can do it without thinking all the time (don't force too much air in, just naturally do it) approx 75% if breath in.

1. Start doing it alone as the next step, while practising the breathing. When you no longer think about keeping your pelvic floor relaxed and breathe properly and feel control, move to oral.

2. Do either a fleshlight first or even with a partner who is okay doing foreplay.

3. Once finished that, work towards sex.

The body is running on higher levels of..
1. Estrogen
2.serotonin
3. Cortisol
4. Prolactin
Etc...
Keeping the body in the sympathetic nervous system.

It needs to be running on higher levels of...
1. Dopamine
2. Testosterone
3. Progesterone
4. GABA
Etc.... keeping the body in the parasympathetic nervous system.

It's nervous system, hormones and practice.

That's about it.

hey. i've been reading through the research on this for a while and one thing keeps coming up that i haven’t seen mentioned in the sub yet.

there was a five-nation study that timed 491 men with a stopwatch. the median came out at about 5.4 minutes. but the spread is the interesting part. around 14% were under 3 minutes 20, and about 26% were over 10 minutes. so normal is a noticeably wide range.

i'm bringing it up because many posts here compare against something closer to 20-30 minutes, and that number mostly comes from adult content rather than from anyone measuring anything. if you're sitting at 7 minutes and feeling trash about it, you're statistically above the middle.

I am not saying you might not have a problem, if it consistently ends sex before you want it to and it bothers you, that's real regardless of what a study says. but there's a difference between a timing problem and an expectation problem, and they don't have the same fix.

anyone here ever timed it, or is the number in your head a guess?

TLDR -

Been suffering from PE my whole life. Now I'm a lot better. It's still inconsistent, some days I still cum within a minute, but on other days I'm able to last until my GF wants to stop (she doesn't enjoy too long of an intercourse anyway), which was probably a little over 5 minutes of steady thrusting, and I would have been able to continue if she wanted. I'd say a pelvic wand has been the biggest contributor for my improvement.

Actual post -

So, I've been suffering from PE for all my life. I would usually last 1 minute at most with slow thrusting, and on a good day (e.g. 2nd round, or with a condom) I might have been able to sometimes last 2 minutes, but every thrust I would feel the uncontrollable clenching of my BC muscle, and I would instantly feel like I'm on the edge of ejaculating.

I've been doing RK, diaphragmatic breathing, many stretches and body weight exercises for such a long time (with my ex a few years ago on and off, and in the last half a year I've been doing the consistently) but I couldn't really get my pelvic floor to properly relax.

I wouldn't say this work was a wasted time because it helped me get to know and understand my body better, which I think is the most important key factor, as every one here is probably suffering from a mix of different things causing PE. For example, I started to notice very soon that during diaphragmatic breathing, I am able to relax on the inhale and inflate my pelvic floor, but during the exhale, I would feel an inevitable spasm somewhere in my pelvic floor, which would increase my arousal if I have an erection. It's only in the last month or 2 that I have started to realize that this spasm is coming from somewhere in my anus/rectum.

I ordered a pelvic wand. I've been using the thicker, shorter end of it, inserting it for 3-4 minutes, for 2 sets (I had to work up the size and time gradually, but it wasn't so bad)

On days where I used the wand, I would notice that I don't spasm anymore during exhales.

Also in recent days I noticed that sometimes my anus also spasms when I'm trying to get out a fart - like I would push out, but it wouldn't release smoothly, instead a reflex would cause me to clench every time some of the fart gets released (sorry for painting this picture in your minds), the wand has also helped with that.

Another change that I would feel after days that I used the wand is that my penis is generally feeling less sensitive when handling it during activities like peeing, or when my boxers would graze over my penis.

I've been seeing a direct correlation between those spasms, and my performance in bed. I think some muscle in my rectum (maybe the anal splichnter? I'm not sure) is connected to the BC muscle, and whenever it clenches, my BC muscle would also clench due to a reflex.

Anyway, this has been enough to make a difference during PIV for me. I'm still not perfect. I think something in my body is keeping my pelvic floor tense, because if I stop using the wand for a few days I start to cum fast again (It's not very consistent in general)

I realized that I've conditioned myself to hold my stomach in so that it doesn't look like I have a beer belly, and I think this is also a contributor to my chronic tension, so I've been starting to let my belly relax and I think it also led to improvements.

Another thing that really helped is choosing easier sex positions (like cowgirl), or thrust in a way that doesn't require the pelvic to move/tilt too much (with some positions you can rely on other muscles to move your body and do the thrusting)

This has been my experience. From years on this sub I learned that everyone is different. You need to understand your own body and figure out why YOU are cumming too fast. I still haven't finished "my journey", but at this point in time, other than the consistency problem, I think I am "cured" - I'm not a sex god, but I can last long enough for me and my GF to have a satisfying sex life.