SEX CHANGES

uExpress, May, 2007 by Randy Cohen

My wife of 30 years and I are in our 60s. A few years ago she asked that we no longer engage in sex. "It's not such a big deal anymore," she said. She would not see a doctor or consider other help. I began an affair with a widow. Recently my wife found out and went ballistic. If she can casually renounce sex, can't I seek it elsewhere? -- Name Withheld, Massachusetts

Monogamy is important to most married people; it certainly is to your wife. But your greater transgression is not adultery; it is dishonesty. You and she might agree that because she no longer wants sex, you may seek it elsewhere -- discreetly, tactfully, striving not to cause her embarrassment. Or she might find this modus vivendi intolerable and, if forced to choose, decide to live apart from you. But you...

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