Do you identify with any of the following problems?
Maybe:
- Everything was fine at the beginning of your relationship but over the years, with the stresses and strains of life, sex may seem to come lower on the agenda or maybe it has even fallen off! Events such as redundancy, bereavement or a new baby may lead to changes in how you feel about being sexual. You may feel a loss of sexual interest or desire or question why your partner would want to be intimate with you.
- You have always found it difficult to relax sexually (events earlier in life including the way you were brought up and the messages you were given about sex can contribute to this difficulty).
- You and your partner had different sexual experiences before meeting each other and therefore different expectations about how it would be in this relationship and are finding it difficult to work out a sexual relationship that suits you both.
There could be a specific physical problem that affects both of you. You might be experiencing one or more of the problems listed below:
- Erectile dysfunction - if you cannot get or keep an erection long enough in order to be able to have penetrative sex.
- Premature ejaculation - if you ejaculate (or come) too soon.
- Pain on intercourse - if penetration is painful or if the vagina muscles are so tense that penetration seems impossible.
- Sex Addiction