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Calling all married couples/longtime partners

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ThisIsMyNameOkay · 01/02/2024 22:53

How often do you have sex?
Are you happy with the amount?

Asking because since being in my long term relationship (my first long term relationship) it's slowed down a lot so I'm just interested to know people's personal patterns

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coldmilled · 01/02/2024 22:58

What do you consider long term?
We’ve been together 25 years. There has been a lot of variation over that time. Obviously most frequent when we first got together. Least frequent just after babies / during the squeezed years of caring for elderly parents and young children

we don’t always have the same libido, so we both need to make compromises. The key is good communication. Imo nobody has the right to sex, and nobody has the right to deny the legitimacy of their partner’s sexual desires. In other words, if i don’t want to have sex then I don’t have to, no further conversation needed. But if that means my partner has no sex life over a sustained period then we need to discuss it and talk about how to find a compromise we can both accept.

ArchetypalBusyMum · 01/02/2024 23:00

Been together 22 years. Agree with @coldmilled
Right now life is a bit mixed so varies between twice in one day to twice in a month. 🥴

LorlieS · 01/02/2024 23:01

We're older parents (43 and 48), bedsharing with our almost 4 yo, and with two teenage sons in the house for some of the time.
Married two years.
So the answer is....nowhere as much as we would like!!!

faribos · 01/02/2024 23:04

We've been married 15 years, together 16. I'm 36, he's 40. Two primary aged kids.
We have sex around 4 times a week on average. I'm really happy with things now.

But it's not always been like this for us. A while back there were months on end where we didn't have sex - a brutal fertility journey sucked all the joy out of it for a few years.

It's been a lot of uncomfortable conversations and hard work, but for us definitely worth it. Sex is really important to us.

BreeBacon · 02/02/2024 09:32

Around 4/5 times a week. We both naturally fancy it after a couple of days have passed without. It's a happy medium for us. Once a week wouldn't be enough but everyday would be too much. Sometimes it's nice to just have a cuddle and sleep. Menopause is a way off yet, but that does concern me as I have seen lots of women close to me lose their libido after.

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