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er....anyone else forgotten what sex lasting longer than 15 mins is like?! (light hearted!)

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Oversizedhoodie · 27/09/2020 00:23

I mean 15 probably generous...

DH and I together since early twenties, now both pushing 40 and two glorious sleep resisting kids and jobs with long hrs and big demands.

Anyway - we used to have a cracking sex life - whole weekends in bed,taking our time, trying new things. I totally understood and expected that as kids came and work got harder that might shift and it did. For quite a while after each birth we barely slept together at all but when we started again I'd mainly describe things as, well...efficient Grin . Still loving and all that but mainly, well, shall we say goal oriented and executed as swiftly as possible in the time allowed which given being knackered and limited time was often not long.

Anyway - things v slightly easing up now and occasionally have the time for more than the world's most professional quickie and - genuinely - feel like have forgotten what we did with it!!! Genuinely feeling awkward and weird despite lovely partner I really fancy and have been with for decades....Truly, I think I was a more competent and skilled lover in my late teens...

Anyway - are these just things lost in the fog of kids and life that come back to you or do I need to work things out from scratch all over again?!

OP posts:
redlockscelt · 27/09/2020 00:39

15 minutes would be as rare as the 2nd coming round here, isn't 2 minutes the norm?,
!

Paranoidmarvin · 27/09/2020 08:36

15 mins! Maybe when I was younger. Now I have bad hips and a bad back. The quicker the better Grin

ShandlersWig · 27/09/2020 08:38

Are you doing it twice?

Oversizedhoodie · 27/09/2020 08:42

I love these replies....re doing it twice I'm terrified to actually work out timing but yeah...on balance think definitely under 10 mins. Sigh.

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Paranoidmarvin · 27/09/2020 09:10

@ShandlersWig when I was younger Grin god not anymore. This thread makes me feel very old.

Kolsch · 27/09/2020 09:36

15 minutes??
Does that include a post sex fag and wipe down??.

Titsywoo · 27/09/2020 09:41

Are you talking about 15 minutes for everything including foreplay or the actual sex? Dh and I can still go for an hour or so if you mean the former but we still experiment a lot. For actual sex there's a limit or things start to get a bit sore Grin

Lsquiggles · 27/09/2020 09:44

@Kolsch

15 minutes?? Does that include a post sex fag and wipe down??.
Grin
sparkli · 27/09/2020 09:47

Mid 40s and 6 teenage/early 20s DC. Definitely under 10 minutes here! I actually think it was easier when the kids were younger. Now I find it hard to relax when they're around.

thevassal · 27/09/2020 10:16

OP I'm loving your terminology Grin. 'efficient' and 'goal orientated' - pity you couldn't have squeezed some 'blue sky thinking' in there! Do you think you need to 'reach out' to your partner and using 'best practice' take your love 'to the next level'?

Ten mins from start to finish? Including foreplay? That does seem, um....efficient!

Do you think maybe having a night away in a hotel or something could be a good reset button to trying to, um, expand your horizons? Even if you don't get round to the act itself taking much longer you could still take the opportunity to enjoy the build up - nice shower/bath together, try some nice underwear, go for a different position with the safety of a locking door, could even try a two pronged approach (sorry!) by having a night AND morning quickie....

nosswith · 27/09/2020 13:25

Anyone who has had sex with our Prime Minister, I expect.

ShandlersWig · 27/09/2020 18:01

@nosswith a surprisingly high number then.

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