This is so so so interesting!! Would love to hear more about sexuality and neurodivergence 💛 as well as sexuality and catharsis, especially for people who need help disregulating and becoming less cerebral 🌸💕
The part about the poly parenting and how each one brings a different element to the table was sweet too 😊
After I stopped breastfeeding the first kid, my libido rebounded like wildfire! Hormones are a helluva drug. It'll definitely come back. (And when your hormones right themselves the anxiety usually fixes itself too. Low estrogen does both!)
Now, though, I'm going through peri-menopause and my libido has been quite sluggish.
As a former slut, it is quite a strange thing when being slutty is a major part if your personality and an important part of your social life - and then suddenly it's not. But kids do open up a new social group and a new set of social activities to do as well.
But with peri I am however worried about my relationship with my husband - you get similar anxiety and loss of libido due to low estrogen in peri/menopause. With kids I always knew it was temporary and plus the kids kept him around. With menopause it's forever.
Worse sex and I'm acting crazy because of the anxiety! I feel bad for him.
I'm thinking about drugs but in peri they basically just offer you BC because things are fluctuating too much for standard HRT. We'll see!
BC vs. standard HRT varies by how old you are and how your symptoms have been so far; the two interventions do different things. BC suppresses and stabilizes, HRT gives you steady levels. If you don't have a doctor who's working with you to explore options, running lots of tests, etc. then maybe push harder or switch doctors! You can work with a lot of this and you don't just have to resign yourself.
This is so so so interesting!! Would love to hear more about sexuality and neurodivergence 💛 as well as sexuality and catharsis, especially for people who need help disregulating and becoming less cerebral 🌸💕
The part about the poly parenting and how each one brings a different element to the table was sweet too 😊
After I stopped breastfeeding the first kid, my libido rebounded like wildfire! Hormones are a helluva drug. It'll definitely come back. (And when your hormones right themselves the anxiety usually fixes itself too. Low estrogen does both!)
Now, though, I'm going through peri-menopause and my libido has been quite sluggish.
As a former slut, it is quite a strange thing when being slutty is a major part if your personality and an important part of your social life - and then suddenly it's not. But kids do open up a new social group and a new set of social activities to do as well.
But with peri I am however worried about my relationship with my husband - you get similar anxiety and loss of libido due to low estrogen in peri/menopause. With kids I always knew it was temporary and plus the kids kept him around. With menopause it's forever.
Worse sex and I'm acting crazy because of the anxiety! I feel bad for him.
I'm thinking about drugs but in peri they basically just offer you BC because things are fluctuating too much for standard HRT. We'll see!
BC vs. standard HRT varies by how old you are and how your symptoms have been so far; the two interventions do different things. BC suppresses and stabilizes, HRT gives you steady levels. If you don't have a doctor who's working with you to explore options, running lots of tests, etc. then maybe push harder or switch doctors! You can work with a lot of this and you don't just have to resign yourself.