When Sex is an Issue in Your Marriage
Sex is a vital part of most marriages and one of the most common points of dissent in a relationship. As the generational gaps in propriety relaxed over the past few decades, intense discussions and debates about sex have become a large part of the marriage counseling process.
Once considered by the general public to be an issue for younger marriages, more and more older marriages are also feeling the pressure to perform. Performance enhancing drugs, for both men and women, are telling consumers that there is no need to suffer the absence of sex, no matter what your biological clock is telling you. Movies and popularized television and ads bombard people with constant images of passionate couples that seem to have sex everywhere, all the time, until in the end consumers are convinced that no relationship is happy or fulfilling unless the bed is an Olympic training ground.
Truthfully, the amount of sex that you and your partner have is up to the both of you. If you are happy with sex being a low-key background function of your marriage than that works for you, no matter what the popular image of a relationship puts forth. For older couples who simply don’t have the drives that they once did, if they wish to fill their relationship with other things, and that works for them, then who can argue the case for Viagra?
The problems with sex in a marriage often boil down to not how much sex is enough, but the importance of sex and the frequency that is right for both partners. When one partner has a low sex drive and the other partner has a high sex drive, conflicts begin.
If you and your partner are having difficulties in your relationship that stem from different sex drives, a marriage counselor can help.
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