Getting Started Tips and Tools

February 4, 2010

• Keeping Relationship Agreements for More Love’n

  The foundation of all relationships, with friends, family members, co-workers, and especially our significant others is that it's both give and take.  We agree to come together and form a relationship.  Each relationship we have includes choices, responsibilities and agreements. (…)

February 2, 2010

• I'm ba-a-a-a-ack

  What did Hugo say in Tale of Two Cities? This was the best of times and the worst of times.
  We both got hit with a wicked respiratory virus, no NOT H1N1, but it sure put us out nonetheless. (…)

December 28, 2009

• Reawaken Your Love’n Feelings

  One of the most common patterns for couples who have been together for a long time is losing that love'n feeling. It’s what the pros call a lack of sexual desire. (…)

December 21, 2009

• Incontinence: Timing and Volume Make All the Difference

  A couple of weeks ago, I shared a portion of the interview I had with Physical Therapist LIzanne Pastore about incontinence, especially as it applied to older people. (…)

December 14, 2009

• Great Lovers are Made not Born

  Most of us were taught that sex was all about “do’n what comes naturally.”
  Unfortunately for those of us who are still believers, just because sex is perfectly natural, doesn't mean it is naturally perfect. (…)

November 16, 2009

• Men Really Don't Have a Menopause, Do They?

  Do Men have “Menopause”? The quick answer is yes…but it really isn't “menopause.” Menopause means a cessation of menstruation. (…)

November 2, 2009

• Quick Tips for Weight Loss Success

  The more the data comes in, the clearer the picture. (…)

October 15, 2009

• How to Lose Weight for more Satisfying Senior Sex

  The research on losing weight for seniors is clear: less weight means a better sex life.
  What's not so clear is the way to lose weight and keep it off. (…)

September 28, 2009

• Senior Sex, Exercise and Weight…What Works and What Doesn’t?

  Everyone seems to be looking for a great way to keep their weight in line. Particularly for seniors who want to lose weight and get more fit to be more capable of satisfying senior sex. (…)

August 24, 2009

• Has Missing the Sexual Revolution Undermined Your Satisfying Senior Sex?

  Most people reading this blog are old enough to have missed the sexual revolution.  For most of us, our sex education consisted of an embarrassing conversation with a teacher in the sixth or seventh grade. (…)

August 18, 2009

• Are You Letting Your Past Sabotage Your Satisfying Senior Sex

  One of the questions I’m often asked is some version of “Dr. (…)

August 11, 2009

• How to Slip into Not Having Senior Sex At All

  No one goes to bed at night, has satisfying senior sex, and then never makes love again. (…)

July 30, 2009

• Predictable Changes of Aging Women Experience

  For women, the changes of aging may seem obvious. (…)

July 27, 2009

• Is Depression Tanking Your Satisfying Senior Sex?

  One of the most common causes of low sexual drive among seniors, for both men and women, is having trouble with your relationship with yourself. (…)

July 18, 2009

• So What is the Furor All About with FSAD?

  When I first wrote about FSAD last year, I had a number of comments from readers, saying some version of “finally, a lone voice in the wilderness,” to “you don’t know my wife.”
  A recent question from a reader egged me on to revisit the topic, partly because she was sure I was trying to say there is no such thing as FSAD, Female Sexual Affective Disorder. (…)

June 19, 2009

• Take Charge of the Normal Changes of Aging to Support More Satisfying Senior Sex

  The number one change, the one both women and men notice first as they get older, is making love just takes longer.
  It takes longer to get the urge. (…)

June 6, 2009

• Is Your Kitchen Sabotaging Satisfying Senior Sex?

  It’s simple: what happens in the kitchen affects what can happen in the bedroom.
  So watch what you eat, and how much you eat, if you want to improve your love’n. (…)

May 29, 2009

• For More Satisfying Senior Sex, Get Your Mama Out of Your Head

  I don’t know about you, but I find it appalling that I can still hear my mom’s voice tell me what I should do, or shouldn’t’ do, especially when it comes to sex. (…)

May 22, 2009

• Don’t Let these Common Traps Destroy Your Satisfying Senior Sex

  Intimacy, like all of our behaviors waxes and wanes throughout the course of any relationship. (…)

May 8, 2009

• New Loving Skills Make for Great Senior Sex

  Even if you do sometimes have trouble with getting or keeping an erection, it doesn't have to mean the end of your love life. (…)