Stephanie, 58. Don't quite know how to put this so I'll just say it. Me and my husband have been together 31 years. We have always been fine in that department. Not fireworks every night obviously, but fine. Good, even. And then somewhere in the last two years it just... shifted. And I don't mean we argued or drifted apart emotionally. I mean physically something changed in me without anyone sending me a memo about it. It's uncomfortable now. Sometimes it's actually sore. I started dreading it and then feeling guilty for dreading it and then snapping at him about completely unrelated things because I didn't know how to explain what was going on. He thinks I've gone off him. I haven't. I genuinely haven't. I've been writing things down in the notes app on my phone because I have a GP appointment next week and I know if I don't write it I will sit in that chair and say "I'm fine, just a bit tired" like I always do. So I've got: dryness, soreness, that strange burning feeling after, the UTI symptoms that turned out not to be a UTI twice this year. Written it all out. Feels mortifying to read back but it's true. Has anyone actually managed to talk to their GP about this without wanting to disappear through the floor? I'm 58 not 18, I know that, but somehow this feels harder to say out loud than anything else I've dealt with. x