Donna Hofmeister thought she and her husband would be having sex for the rest of their lives. “I was someone that would always say to my husband, ‘I want to be doing it when we’re 80,’” Hofmeister, 54, a nurse in Delaware, tells TODAY.com.
“I’m very interested in that type of stuff.” Hofmeister participated in the documentary “The M Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause,” one of the first documentaries to examine menopause, featuring women experiencing it and experts treating it. In the documentary, Hofmeister addressed her experience with low libido and other .
For Hofmeister, her dwindling interest in sex seemed to be tied to an increase in midlife responsibilities. “At first you think, ‘OK, we’re just busy with life.’ But then you realize, ‘I have zero desire,’” she says.
“You start to feel disconnected.” She wondered if parenting two teens and increasing work responsibilities led to it, but even when she and her husband invested in weekly date nights, her libido didn’t return. “I still wasn’t interested,” she says.
Low libido can feel isolating to many who experience, but it’s a common symptom that comes with perimenopause — the years prior to menopause when the body begins to change — and menopause itself. “It’s actually the most common of all sexual problems,” Dr. Lauren Streicher, host of "Dr.
Streicher’s Inside Information: The Menopause Podcast,” tells TODAY.com. “If you look at post-menopausal cate.