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Re: How Tiredness Kills Your Sex Life....well, gives it a dead leg anyway.
posted at 13/7/2009 9:06 AM BST
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First post: 21/6/2005 Last post: 11/11/2009 |
Hey Zigg... sorry i didnt reply before this, we are without internet connection at home, and i was away getting sunburnt in torrential rain anyway! I have heard that before, that more sleep makes you sleepier, but whenever i have been sleep deprived for any length of time, i just feel truely awful... it just doesnt seem to improve. Maybe i'd need to give it longer, but it seems *so* counter intuitive, y'know. When it comes to the sex factor, i could do it when I'm tired, of course, but it just feels like a chore... something to get over and done with, which isnt at all how I/we want it to be- or how it feels when i'm not hangingly tired! |
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Re: How Tiredness Kills Your Sex Life....well, gives it a dead leg anyway.
posted at 13/7/2009 11:54 AM BST
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First post: 24/3/2009 Last post: 10/11/2009 |
Didn't see this thread when it was first about. Anyway, YES I know EXACTLY how you feel. Recently discussing in BTS, as whole sex life gone down the pan. Partly stress etc, but also coz we are both SO bloody tired all the time. I am asleep within seconds of hitting a pillow. OH is the same. We try to on weekends now but so busy/tired/hungover/peed off that rarely happens. (although I jumped him during the afternoon this weekend...I had had enough). I think sometimes you are just too tired. That work/daily life is too much at the time and your body needs a rest. Not only this but your brain needs the time as well. Any chance of taking a hol? Doing less after work? Otherwise its either a matter of waking up earlier some days or just making more effort on the weekends.
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Re: How Tiredness Kills Your Sex Life....well, gives it a dead leg anyway.
posted at 13/7/2009 12:16 PM BST
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First post: 11/11/2005 Last post: 24/9/2009 |
Smale - exercise in moderation will make you feel less tired but there is certainly a limit and anything higher than that has the opposite effect. Was reading in a sunday magazine supplement about how one doctor said 'it is frequently the fittest and healthiest people who are the tiredest. I find out that they go to the gym several times a week, yoga classes, running, cycling etc and they wonder why they are so worn out? The body can only take you so far and remember that so many women are also watching their calorie intake too so the reality is you are not providing nearly enough nutrition for your body to keep it going'. Steve Redgrave for example, consumed 8,000 calories per day during his Olympic training - because he was burning so much energy off in exercise that he needed to up his calorie intake to provide his body with the fuel to work the muscles. If you think you are not getting much more than 2,000 calories per day (recommended daily intake for women not on a diet), then you do exercise on top of that, you're effectively on a diet and any continuous amount of exercise means you are draining your body's energy supply. Maybe something to consider? |
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Re: How Tiredness Kills Your Sex Life....well, gives it a dead leg anyway.
posted at 13/7/2009 1:01 PM BST
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First post: 21/6/2005 Last post: 11/11/2009 |
interesting post science, but no, probably not... I've been notoriously a sleepyhead for about 10yrs now!! during which time I've wavered between oodles of exercise and none. I guess the calorie/quality of food thing probably comes into it though, as was previously suggested- could prob. decrease my sugar and caffiene intake for one. |
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Re: How Tiredness Kills Your Sex Life....well, gives it a dead leg anyway.
posted at 13/7/2009 1:06 PM BST
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make sure you get all your minerals and vitamins now is teh best time to get all the vitamins from fruits and minerals form nuts and seeds, drinking lots of water will also help boost the system. zinc vitc and iron supplements all help boost the immune system when taken together.
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Re: How Tiredness Kills Your Sex Life....well, gives it a dead leg anyway.
posted at 13/7/2009 1:17 PM BST
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y'know, up at 6.45am, work at 8am, finish about 5ish, bit of house work, followed by few hours down at rowing doing training, or doing private jobs, or cleaning/cooking/whatever else it is which eats your time, blah de blah blah Posted by smalex Is there any reson why you can't prioritise sex over housework and bonk after work and pick up the socks whenever you get a chance rather than the other way round? Also, is Mr Small pulling his weight with the cleaning/cooking/etc?
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Re: How Tiredness Kills Your Sex Life....well, gives it a dead leg anyway.
posted at 13/7/2009 1:28 PM BST
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In Response to Re: How Tiredness Kills Your Sex Life....well, gives it a dead leg anyway.: Is there any reson why you can't prioritise sex over housework and bonk after work and pick up the socks whenever you get a chance rather than the other way round? Also, is Mr Small pulling his weight with the cleaning/cooking/etc? Posted by LoonyPumpkin ha! no, i suppose not. Although, that said, straight after work on mondays, often tuesdays, him on wednesdays, me on thursdays... we don't go home/go home and go straight out anyway. So, I could swap sex for socks, but it'd probably only have a limited effect. Actually, when you put it that way, its pretty clear why isnt it? By bedtime we're knackered, and only one day a week are we guaranteed to both be home any time before 9pm. and even then sometimes one or other of us is out. hmm. and He is, pretty much. We've had a few run in's about pulling of ones weight about the house a few months ago- but things seem to have balanced back out again. |
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Re: How Tiredness Kills Your Sex Life....well, gives it a dead leg anyway.
posted at 14/7/2009 2:00 PM BST
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First post: 7/10/2004 Last post: 23/11/2009 |
In Response to Re: How Tiredness Kills Your Sex Life....well, gives it a dead leg anyway.: Is there any reson why you can't prioritise sex over housework and bonk after work and pick up the socks whenever you get a chance rather than the other way round? Also, is Mr Small pulling his weight with the cleaning/cooking/etc? Posted by LoonyPumpkin Yeah I think this is key to be honest. You're right we all have so much going on these days in ours lives, work, seeing friends family, cooking, excercising, the list could go on and on. I think sometimes you just have to take a step back from things and try and think a little differently. If you're shattered at the end of the day, you're right in saying you're probably feeling at your unsexiest!! Have you talked about it? "The more you Need the less you'll Get!"
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Re: How Tiredness Kills Your Sex Life....well, gives it a dead leg anyway.
posted at 14/7/2009 2:12 PM BST
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First post: 21/6/2005 Last post: 11/11/2009 |
sort of. we sometimes say we need to make more effort, but without one or both of us cutting back on other things we enjoy/need to do, then the same situation still exists. I guess its probably only just dawned on me that I need to make time for this as much as anything else (i do think its imperative to a happy marriage, really), and that probably does mean changing things elsewhere- maybe even if it is just in my way of thinking (ie. less socks, more sex!)
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Re: How Tiredness Kills Your Sex Life....well, gives it a dead leg anyway.
posted at 14/7/2009 2:32 PM BST
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First post: 7/10/2004 Last post: 23/11/2009 |
In Response to Re: How Tiredness Kills Your Sex Life....well, gives it a dead leg anyway.: I guess its probably only just dawned on me that I need to make time for this as much as anything else (i do think its imperative to a happy marriage, really), and that probably does mean changing things elsewhere- maybe even if it is just in my way of thinking (ie. less socks, more sex!) Posted by smalex  Yeah it's weird isn't it, you sort of go about your weekly routine, doing what you usually do/what needs to be done, before you know it, 10.00pm."The more you Need the less you'll Get!"
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