.: Midlife Women Top Related Articles
1). Midlife Women ~ What They Really Want
Over 40 million women are entering the second half of their lives and what they really want is not what many people think. It’s not about the gray hair, a few wrinkles or even hitting the big 5-0.
The recent story in Time Magazine (5/9/05) has hopefully opened eyes to what midlife and older women really want. So often, society looks at midlife as just being that – midlife, menopause, empty nest, gray hair and wrinkles.
Article tags: midlife women, menopause, midlife crisis, time magazine, aging
2). CPR for Lackluster Libidos in Midlife
Some women in midlife have a kind of sexual flowering, enjoying sex more than ever before. Other women have the opposite experience: they feel like they’re shutting down sexually. These are the women who report that, though they love their partners dearly, they’re just not that interested in sex with them anymore.
“In their 40’s and 50’s, women come into their own sense of who they are as sexual beings,” says sex therapist and iVillage sex expert Dr.
Article tags: midlife women, sex, relationships, body image, menopause
3). Wait, Don’t Tell Me: Boosting Memory for Midlife Women
Everyone has memory lapses. We blank on our long-time neighbor’s name, or we forget the cake in the oven until the smoke detector goes off. But being forgetful in midlife is particularly common: Studies show that one-half to two-thirds of people 50 and older notice memory changes. There are as many reasons for this as there are steps to remedy it.
Memory has three stages: learning, consolidation, and recall.
Article tags: midlife women, memory, forgetfulness