It’s official. The American Heart Association (AHA) has just released its most comprehensive guidelines ever regarding sex for patients with heart disease. The bottom line: Sex is safe after a heart attack. In fact, it’s good for you to get back into the swing of things as quickly as possible. So, if you’ve been waiting… and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘relationships’
From the Heart Docs: Sex is Safe after Heart Attack
Posted in Condition News, tagged heart attack, heart disease, intimacy, relationships on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Study Confirms Older Women Like Sex
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged intimacy, relationships, satisfaction on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hm. We could have told you that. Recently, we reported on the results of an international survey that explored how satisfied older couples are with their relationships and sex lives. Turns out that sex continues to be important to older women, and it’s an important element in overall satisfaction with their relationships—and sometimes it’s even [...]
Hitting the Sexual “Reset” Button
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged emotional intimacy, intimacy, relationships, sex after menopause on September 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Maybe your last child left home, as mine just did this fall. Maybe you (or your partner) retired. Maybe your partner became ill. The catalyst could be one of many life events, or it could simply be the realization of time passing, but at some point you look at your partner and realize that you’ll [...]
Why Buy the Cow
Posted in Condition News, tagged love, psychology, relationships on September 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Remember back in the day, when good girls didn’t “hook up”? They “saved themselves” for marriage, and there were names for those who didn’t. If, God forbid, an unmarried girl happened to disgrace herself, she was whisked out of sight for a few months and returned chastened but unburdened. Remember when the only career options [...]
Three Cheers for Second Loves
Posted in The Good Stuff, tagged relationships, sex after menopause, vaginal comfort on February 4, 2011 | Comments Off
If you read this blog regularly, you know that I usually summarize questions I receive from visitors to the website when I think the answers will be helpful to more people. An e-mail I received today, though, makes me want to say more. The message was from a 63-year-old widower who says, I “have met [...]


