Instead of being exhausted after a long day we’re both working from home, enjoying relaxed breakfast and lunch together – and bumping into each other around the house feels like a lovely little tease!” But Isobel admits that she knows all too well what it feels like to struggle to want to have sex with a partner (in her former negative relationship). But at the moment, I’d say lockdown has given our sex life a boost. “We don’t live together full time,” Isobel explains, “I imagine if we did, with children running around everywhere, things would be different. It’s a second relationship for both of them (they each have children from previous relationships). Isobel*, is in a long-term relationship for over five years with her partner. Right now, some people are finding lockdown’s less hectic life schedules doing wonders for their love life, while others are cracking under the strain. We’re enjoying relaxed breakfast and lunch together – and bumping into each other around the house feels like a lovely little tease! “And yet no matter what issue brings a couple into therapy – feeling under-appreciated, going in different directions, clashing parenting styles – we always end up talking about sex.” Libido highs and lows “As a community in Ireland, sex gets left out of the conversation,” says Sarah Gilligan, a psychotherapist with a specialist interest in relationships, sex and sexuality.
Clearly this is the first time I have written about the subject and yet it’s something that affects every single one of us – male or female, young or old, pandemic or no pandemic. It has taken me three goes to even spell the word correctly. Lizzie Gore-Grimes has a number of very frank conversations with other women to talk about our current pandemic passion – or lack of. Whether you’re in the lockdown love-in or Covid cold war camp, chances are this pandemic is having an affect on your relationship.
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