Aging and Relationships

Healthy, happy aging and relationships go together. In a way it makes sense. I mean if we let ourselves become old grouches that probably doesn't do much either for us or for those around us.


The best observable evidence of the aging<->relationships connection (after just looking around ) was provided by some long term studies that began in the late 1930's and have followed the subjects ever since. You can read more about the Study of Adult Behavior at the Harvard Medical School by Dr. Vaillant HERE.


Truthfully, I can't see how one can tell for sure whether the "stable relationships" that the researchers found in people who lived the longest and the healthiest were causative, where the effect of one of the other variables, or even whether staying with the same person for a long time is in and of itself a good goal.


Still, relationships were definitely in there and on that alone it is worth a look and some attention.

Senior Sex - What? Get creative? Now?

Aging seems to have a bottomless bag of tricks sometimes.

One thing is for sure, things just keep changing. And that's kind of rough since most of us are so relieved to find something that works for us that we want to do it over and over and free up some attention for other things.

Well, even if our minds want to do it that way, when it comes to sex, our bodies are not going to let it happen. I guess we'd better get used to it.

Got a list of things that you'd never do? I am starting to suspect that if we try to keep that too tight, the older we get, the higher the odds become that sex itself will become one of the things that we never do.

Doesn't have to be that way. God, give me strength to let go and enjoy what I've got.