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I think part of the issue is that we conceive of a "healthy marriage" looking one specific way and we don't leave a lot of room for people to change, even to experience the normal an inevitable changes of age. A marriage between 52 year olds and marriage between 32 year olds will look different, to expect otherwise is simply ignorant.[/quote]

Definitely agree with this. In the case of my marriage, the libido disparity in our 40s was the roughest part. In our early 30s, our libidos weren't so far apart. Late 30s and much of our 40s, her libido tanked (for some of the standard reasons - mostly not my fault or otherwise within my control) and mine didn't drop as fast. The rejection I felt when she didn't reciprocate the desire I felt for her was definitely challenging.

In our 50s, my libido has declined to something closer to hers and things are pretty happy again. Ideas of masculinity being what they are, I know there are plenty of people who would regard decline of libido as being worse than unhappiness in marriage. But, for my part, I guess it would have been helpful if I'd had a better sense that our 50s might be like this and we'd be happy with it. [/quote]

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