We made a joint one this morning......don't laugh......make more time for each other and .....wait for it...have more sex! Last year was hideous for me health wise and I've had five long years of ill health and operations and, like many of you, hated my body soooo much that I struggled with the physical side of my relationship.....in fact I was glad that I had an excuse, in needing a hip replacement, in order to avoid having sex......sorry is that too much info?
Anyway, we have had an absolute tragedy in the past couple of days (find it too painful to discuss here) and it has forced us to talk which, tbh, we had been avoiding doing and only a week ago I was worried that out 20 year relationship was on the rocks. We have also had to cling to each other for comfort after barely touching for months....anyway to cut a long and far too intimate story short.......we realised just how much we had missed each other. Added to which I don't cringe now when he touches me and I can even bear (bare) to be seen naked.
I hope that this makes sense to those of you who still feel like I did, you have to start loving yourself before you can let somebody else love you.....I, personally, couldn't even bring myself to like my fat self, let alone love me. Ok that makes me a pretty shallow person I guess but that's the way I am.....
Happy New Year? X