2023-10-13 09:54:19
Elderly people can couple, however, many times they do not do so due to opposition from the family and their immediate environment.
Love, four letters regarding which everything is said and of which nothing is definitive; heart, neurons, brain, neurotransmitters and an endless number of variables that continue to be added to the construct called: Love.
“My mother loves me”, “I love my dad”, the first phrases that they taught us and that we had to repeat, thereby learning to read, not to love… by the way. This is the book Coquito or perhaps Angelito from those times.
Older adulthood does not mean the end of love between couples and sexuality, it just changes the way we relate. The human being is capable of loving and being loved, before being conceived and even following leaving this earthly plane.
When older people enjoy a full love life, they have better results in physical and mental health, as well as a better quality of life, regardless of their associated pathologies.
Elderly people can couple, however, many times they do not do so due to opposition from the family and their immediate environment.
On numerous occasions, the man or woman who begins an emotional relationship at an advanced age is stigmatized, coming to consider it as a true attack on the “moral” norms of the family and society.
The hardest battle to accept your partner is sometimes fought in the family, in your own home. Children do not always understand their parents’ wishes and financial issues sometimes stand up as an insurmountable wall.
It should not be overlooked that diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular and joint problems, the side effects of certain medications, among others, create difficulties in establishing romantic relationships with emotional and physical plenitude.
On other occasions, these situations can be the trigger for searching for a relationship, to be accompanied, to be cared for while caring for the other, or to avoid loneliness.
After the establishment of the affection relationship, everything else comes, thus, the physical desire for the loved one, just as in the other stages of life. They appear more spaced out, slower and have later reactions than in younger adults, due to the physical changes caused by aging.
Finally, I leave you some myths regarding sexuality in older adults:
They lack sexuality. The old man, presumably, is not in a position to reproduce, so the use of his sexuality is impossible.
Erotic misery states that they are incapable of experiencing pleasure and awakening desire in others.
Sexual activity decreases with age; subjects with habitual and periodic sexual activity during other stages of life are more likely to maintain this activity when they age.
Changes in the sexual pattern in the elderly, a prevalence of masturbation may be manifested, which is explained, in many cases, by the existence of an incapacitated partner and by the frequency of widowhood at advanced ages.
The Cessation of sexual activity is believed to be an exclusively and necessarily chronological event, when it really depends on many factors such as the state of health and the degree of physical and mental disability (both of the subject and his or her partner).
I’ll be back on Friday. Thank you for reading this space.
Psychologist and lawyer Maria Quiroz.
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