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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Georgina Lawton

‘We slept in separate bedrooms for the last three years’: ex-couples on what went right – and wrong – in their sex life

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‘You grow a lot together…’ Illustration: Fabio Buonocore

Claudia, 61 and Peter, 62: ‘Our sex life was good for 30 years until we started arguing – now we’re divorced’

Peter We were married for 33 years so of course, I could write a book on this. We got divorced three years ago, and I now have a new partner, but things broke down because we fell out of love. I still think she is a totally amazing woman, but there’s no romantic feeling there any more.

We met when I was 28, I couldn’t keep my hands off her. We never had any problems in the bedroom department, and once we knew we were compatible, we married a year later – no messing around. When we moved into our first flat, we had sex in every room and nearly every day, for the first few months. Sex was always a big part of our relationship, even when we had three kids and even when Claudia was pregnant. We always made time for it. I was lucky to have met someone with a similar sex drive to me.

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