Am I expecting to much? Is it coming to a sudden end?

My girlfriend and I have been together now for a year and a half and I love her so much. I have been in quite a few long relationships in the past but never have felt so right as this one does.

We are both 25 and she and I are becoming a lot more serious, we plan on going on a trip to Europe this year (live in Australia) plus talk of the furture together etc.

I am a very touchy feely romantic open type and she is a closed keep your hands to yourself type. I have always struggled with this throughout our relationship but its been getting to me a lot more since our intimate moments are dropping off (in the last year or so) and when they do happen it feels as though she wants to just get it over and done with. At worst once every 6 weeks and at best once every 2 weeks.

When I do try to be romantic (intimate or just cuddly) I either get quickly pushed away or it starts a small tiff. I know she loves me back because she does everything for me, to make me happy. 95% of our relationship is great but that %5 is eating at me.

We have talked about this before a few times now but it ends in her saying she will try harder to be romantic and I trying to be less touchy feely. I have dropped it alot but things will improve on her part for a week or 2 then go back to normal.

So I guess my question is will this blow over for me and I wont care as much or will she hit her peak around 30 and things will be great? I dont know? Am I expecting to much from her? It just seems stupid to throw away such a great girl that I love so much over the romance and intimacy problems.

I'm so sorry but she has 95% of the great and one fatal flaw.

No, she will never change.

If she does, it wont be for you.

I too am cuddly and have dated a non touchy feely.

It just gets worse.

Thats the thing about relationships.
You can be so close and hoping and searching for logical answers to keep the relationship because it has everything else.

But this is a huge horrible flaw.
No, at thirty she will be even more distant and a-sexual with you.

It's not going to get better, its going to get worse. You will be sitting there at 30 thinking you have already wasted you life with the wrong person and you will be that much further behind.

Everyone else will have 4 year old kids and you will be sitting there with miss prude.

Heck, she might even leave you for a woman.

One thing I've realized is that there are certain things in people we love that is difficult to change even if they do try. Either we let go of that relationship to find someone who can fulfill that need (Although they might also have something about them that we don't like...afterall no one is perfect)or we learn to accept and adjust to that certain something we don't like. The decision is really up to you because only you know what you can or cannot tolerate.

I have talked about it in depth before, but I feel ever time I bring it up again it ends in tears as she thinks she is a horrible girlfriend. She is not but we are just different. I just don't know if I can handle the lack of romance in our relationship. If I watched our relationship from above I would see a great friendship with a few kiss's and "I love yous" but she sees it as a great bond that will survive forever be cause we get along so great, which we do.

I have suggested seeing a councilor about it but she quickly dismisses the idea saying there is nothing wrong with us, its just the way we are and we will learn to live with it.

You know the boys, just dich her and find someone else but I guess I dont want someone else. I want her with a bit more romance. Is that to much to expect from her? Is it possible to make things better? Or is it better to break up and hurt both of us to make us happier in the long run?