Relationships - Other

In my last post I mentioned friendships and their ability to keep us feeling young.  In an effort to cover all the bases on that I shall add that pets and plants can be great friends too.  I prefer the plant based friend, they aren't as messy but still require a bit of maintenance.  Enough said.

Moving along.  Other relationships - this for me would be the male/female type since I don't have and exclusive dating relationship.  This is really my round about way of bringing up the subject of sex and it's youthful qualities.  I truly believe that an active sex life keeps people young, happy and physically fit.  The problem comes in finding a partner, this goes for married couples also.  Almost every magazine that comes into the salon, covers some article on sex:  how to do it better, how it flattens your abs, how to tell him what you want, yadda, yadda, yadda.

For my On the Road to 50 purposes I'm interested in the youthful and flat abs aspects.  Emotional well-being would only be available if it was a long-term, monogomous realtionship.  Well, I suppose I could live with myself and be emotionally OK if I had a different partner every week, but it wouldn't be my preference. Now we get into the moral and wellness aspects of having a happy sex life.  Is it right/wrong to have sex without marriage?  How dangerous is having multiple partners? ( I know the answer to that one, just throwing it out to remind everyone.)  If your significant other no longer wants to have sex with you, do you have any "correct" options?  And lest you think you get the same youth building response from other devices, you are wrong.
 
Have Sex and Stay Young "There are physiological factors too," said Dr Weeks. "Sex is the most intense kind of pleasure and that triggers certain chemicals. In women it produces a human growth hormone which helps the process." Regular, loving sex came second to physical and mental activity as the factors most important to retaining youth.

I am not providing any answers here, just giving points to ponder.  If you are in a relationship that doesn't provide you with an happy sex life,I suggest you start doing some work on yourself and that relationship.  This is an important part of traveling down that road to 50 or any other age for that matter.