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I have a question about my sexual relationship
with my partner. I have been with my girlfriend now for about 6
years. I love her more than anything and we have been through so
much together.
During the past few years our sex lives have
really gone down hill that spark and urge for one another isnt
always there and I think it is because we just fell into a boring
everyday routine and stressing out all of the about money and lots
of other things. We both love each other very much and really want
this to work so I was just hoping for any suggestions, tips, techniques,
things to do, to get us back to where we use to be. You know when
you just cant keep your hands off of each other.
If you have any more questions for me or
just need more information just let me know. I really need help.
I want to have our hot sex lives back and I know she does too!
Thanks,
Josh
Dear Josh,
The loss of mental intimacy is a sad thing when it happens to a
previously loving and contented couple. This estrangement can happen
for a number of reasons. Lets discuss a few of the most prevalent
reasons.
Many couples get so busy that they no longer take time to plan
mental and physical intimacy. They stop looking forward to being
together, to making love, to talking about their days, including
what made them feel good and what hurt their feelings. And when
you stop looking forward to those things that are a result of looking
forward to being together, your body is no longer "primed for
action" when you get home.
Therefore unless the couple again starts thinking ahead, planning
their evenings to culminate in making love or having those wonderfully
fulfilling discussion of their hectic days, their thoughts become
more and more private until, after time, they are no longer comfortable
sharing their most private thoughts. The rest of the relationship,
including sex, follows the gradual decline of mental intimacy.
Another reason that couples drift apart is that there could have
been events, sometimes financial, in which one person loses trust
in their partner. Most couples have different attitudes about money,
or how to handle grief, or how to handle in-laws, and almost every
other thing in life. If one of them feels like their views or wishes
are more often than not disregarded, their feelings of wanting to
be intimate will decline and eventually disappear. Obviously the
whole relationship has to be going well, or intimacy declines. Compromise,
carefully thought through, discussed and agreed to, then followed
up on, can result in a better relationship.
There could be "another person" in one of your lives.
If so, the affected person often no longer wants to be intimate
with their current partner any more. In effect, they have already
moved on.
There could be physical reasons, such a pain, or aches, or fears
about disease, which could rob a couple of the combined will to
be intimate. Few people are in the mood for sex if they have systemic
pain hour after hour, day after day.
Sometimes one or the other person simply "grows up".
Women have a distinct change around the age of thirty, and then
again at the age of menopause. Men usually change, "become
a man", around twenty four to twenty eight years of age, and
then may have a "mid life crisis" at forty five. Often
these "life changes" include a change in long term goals,
what a person likes and doesnt like, or what they approve
of for personal behavior in others. Any of these conditions can
result in the couple "growing apart".
And then of course, there is the fact that the longer you are around
someone, the better you know them. One or both of the partners may
decide that they no longer like or respect the other person.
All of these situations will most likely altar the will to be intimate
with their partner.
The solution of course, to all of these, is honest and open communication.
If BOTH partners will honestly agree to work through whatEVER issues
have arisen, ANY couple can again experience the wonderful intimacy
that gives any relationship that warm fuzzy feeling that must be
there for a couple to enjoy sexual relations. But it is hard
work, and requires brutally honest yet sensitively worded communication.
I wish you luck, and fortitude, Josh. There is nothing better in
life than a satisfying, nourishing love life.
Deni,
Samarel Sex Guide Editor
Better Sex Advice
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