(October 7, 2013 at 12:22 pm)max-greece Wrote: Possibly interestingly I would say it more important for a couple to be best friends than lovers.
I know what you're saying, but sex is really important to most people- it's hard to be happy without it. The best relationships are best friends who have rocking sex, too. I just don't think it's right to ask a parent to be starved of a very basic need.
Quote:At some point in a marriage the passion is going to fade - its what you have to replace it that determines whether you can be happy together thereafter.
Sometimes. But my mother and her boyfriend are in their 70s and have been together for almost 20 years, and they're just embarrassingly, grossly passionate and sexual still. It's wonderful even though it makes me squirm, and I hope everyone can have this for as long as they have. Some people feel OK with settling. It's just awful for others.
