1. I want to see getstoseven and marleyisalegend fight it out in an honest gay man-fight.
2. I am 28, my partner is 50+. I've been with him 10 years. Our sex life has always been rocky and I imagine it will always be rocky. It has always been a process of giving up sex, negotiations about sex, passive-aggression about sex, sometimes no sex for months up to a year, planned sex, not enjoyable sex, upsetness after sex, not understanding and not knowing each other's sexual desires/wants after 10 years

and yet sometimes there was good sex.
I am the submissive person in the relationiship. There may be a better word for it, but I can't think of one right now. To clarify, we are not into a master/slave relationship, I am just the more submissive person. As such it makes it very hard for me to tell my partner what I want and what I desire and I expect my partner to fix up the sex life for me, even though it never happens. That part did not change for me in 10 years. Looking back at all my sexual encounters in life, that submissive part was always in me and probably for the most part will be. I wait for others to make decisions for me, sexual, relationship, or otherwise.
If that somewhat describes you, I'd recomment seriously considering your options. Your options may be:
* staying with this guy for another 9 years or more with the very same problems and issues, even though you may solve them once in a while for short periods of time along the way.
* considering breaking this relationship off and starting anew
My 2nd option may sound harsh, but it's better to consider it one year into the relationship while you are 21 rather than 10 years into it and you being 30.
One thing I can say with more or less certainty: boring sex problem will not go away. It may disappear but it will come back. And if it's anything like my situation, you may just be back to the forums with another question, a different one, but it will be the same problem with a different slant on it.
I am still battling my issues, and probably will for quite some time . . . There are many reasons I am staying in the relationship. What are yours ? For me, at first it was quality of living I got and deep conversations. Now it's business, real estate and history built over time.
During my first year I've had sex plenty of times. Later it was an unfortunate surgery that hindered my partner's libido, after which our sex life crashed big time many times over and still does. Sex is an important thing for me. I probably wouldn't stay after 1st year if I could count sex on my fingers. There must be something else that is keeping you with this guy.