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Sexual activity over the life course is strongly associated with better health and greater personal happiness, yet the sexuality of aging adults has been a neglected topic. There is a lack of … Expand. View 1 excerpt, cites background. Family scholars have focused on the onset of sexual activity early in the life course, but little is known about the cessation of sexual activity in relationships in later life.
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Our mental health and personal well being are tied up in the quality of our personal relationships. The more closely we are connected to the people we love, the happier we feel and the more personal satisfaction we have in our lives.
Most people rate moments of connection and shared enjoyment with their loved ones as their most important life experiences. These important relationships not only include family and personal friends but also the wider groups and communities we belong to.
Forming connections and a sense of community with work colleagues, neighbours and the various groups that make up our identity such as sports, hobbies, religious and community groups , all contribute to our well-being. Forming a sense of belonging with other people around a shared mission or identity is a major contributor to our sense of personal meaning in life.
Our personal resilience is interwoven into resilience of the communities to which we belong. It is from the web of our relationships and connections with other people that we draw our strength.
Such communities can lift us when we are down and give us the capacity to deal with whatever challenges come our way. However, creating and maintaining happy personal relationships and belonging to positive communities is not straightforward. We might start out with a loving supportive relationship with a partner but then inattention, neglect and stressful life events take their toll leading to relationship conflict and breakdown.
At this point, the relationship far from being a source of well-being and happiness becomes a source of stress and dissatisfaction.
In addition, you might initially join a positive community group that is bound around a positive mission to make the world a better place, but then the members get sidelined into infighting, scapegoating, as the community becoming divisive and in danger of fracture. At this point, rather than providing a sense of belonging, these communities can isolate, hurt and damage many people. As a result, it is very important to continuously attend to and nurture our relationships with the important people in lives as well as taking time to strengthen the communities to which we belong.
The two major challenges in maintaining close personal relationships are neglect eg not putting time into the relationship and not dealing constructively with conflict thus letting problems fester until they are out of control. One-to-one relaxed time, when you have plenty of space to chat and have fun together is best.
Whether this is being spaced out or checking email when they are talking or being caught up worries or stress that you are not there for them. Whether these are simply kind words of thanks to an important colleague, a gift to an important friend, affection with your partner or a reassuring hug for a child, everyone needs to be appreciated and nurtured in close relationships.
Erik Larson have discovered sexual activity that typically incorporates other forms of physical intimacy has a robust association with lower depression for both women and men. In spite of popular perceptions that sex might matter more for men, they found no significant difference in this association between men and women. They recently published their findings in the journal Society and Mental Health.
Larson and Ganong analyzed data from a nationally representative survey the National Social Health, Life, and Aging Project of adults aged 57 to 85 and discovered sexual activity alone without intimacy did not decrease levels of depression. Additionally, they found that other factors that could influence an association between sexual activity and depression—such as physical and sexual health, perceptions of partner support, and general relationship qualities—could not account for the association.
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