Husband's lack of interest in physical contact

Hi All,

I have been thinking of discussing this problem of mine with someone, but since I am not able to discuss this with my relatives nor friends I finally decided to post it here. I do not think anybody in this forum (or anybody in this world ) would have faced this problem. I have been married for 8 yrs now & have a child 6.5 yrs old. My problem is that my husband is a very unromantic person. During early years of marriage, he used to be mamma's boy & we used to have frequent fights due to MIL issues mainly because she was against our marriage. But somehow we overcome all that & have completed 8 yrs now. The problem is not he being a mamma's boy or MIL issues, the problem which is eating me from inside is his being unromantic to the extent that he is not at all interested in any kind of physical relation with me. I know people would not even believe if I say that in these 8 years of marriage, we had sex only 1-2 times (that too because I took initiative). By god's grace luckily in the 2nd time I got pregnant & now we are parents of a 6.5 yr old girl. After my pregnancy , the distance between us has increased so much that we do not even have physical contact let alone sex, not even holding hands, a hug, a kiss or anything like that. I used to feel very hurt and irritated & so dejected that I used to show this anger on my kid for some other reason. So we have been living just liked roommates all these years now & I have never complained nor talked about it to him. He does not even seem to understand the reason of my frustration. Except any kind of physical contact, rest everything is fine like we go out for movie , we got for short holidays, dine out etc & he is also a very supportive husband in terms of helping me in my household chores, understands my office tensions etc & even the frequents of fights between us has come down after the birth of the child. But I always feel that no love exists in our relationship & that we are continuing in this relationship only for the sake of our child. Now he has gone abroad for a long term assignment & I am staying alone with my child as I am working. He is a very caring husband & a caring father in terms of everything else. Even though he is currently not in India, he calls us everyday , is chatting with me throughout , wants to see us on skype everyday & is also feeling very bored without us that he has decided to take us there by the end of this year. Would any of you reading this post be able to give me any solution? Gents out there, could you suggest me reasons as to why he lacks this interest? The only problem I feel is that he is overweight. Would that be a reason?

Husband's lack of interest in physical contact