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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Emine Saner

Keep talking, try toys and trust yourself: how to have fantastic sex in old age

It’s important to share with your partner what you do and don’t like.
It’s important to share with your partner what you do and don’t like. Photograph: Katarzyna Bialasiewicz/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Midlife and beyond is a good time for re-evaluation, and it’s especially true for your sex life. Do you wish you had one? Do you still like it when your partner does that? Do you still like … your partner?

“In therapy it’s not unusual to come across couples where the sexual relationship has gone off the boil completely for years, for various reasons,” says Ammanda Major, head of service quality and clinical practice at Relate. “That might be physical, emotional, it might be to do with the relationship. People might be thinking, ‘I’ve got another 20, 30 years perhaps, and I don’t want it to be like this.’” It is, she adds, “never too late” to have a fulfilling sex life. Here, then, is how to keep going for longer.

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