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Couple: as we approach our forties, why is nothing going right?

2022-08-04T16:00:18.205Z


TESTIMONIALS - "40 years is the old age of youth", wrote Victor Hugo. At the end of their thirties, many are those who go through a couple crisis, more or less violent.


"I feel like I'm living in a roommate with my wife.

We get on well, but children and work have taken such a place in our lives…” Charles*, 38, has been living with Caroline* for more than a decade.

But the excitement of the early years gave way to a hectic and boring pace of life.

“I ask myself a lot of questions about our couple: am I with the right person?

Is another life waiting for me?

The arrival of two little boys - today 4 and 9 years old - is not for nothing.

“We rarely have time for romantic evenings… And sexuality inevitably suffers!”

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Charles is not the only one to experience this turning point in the life of the couple.

As you approach your forties, many people have doubts, more or less seriously.

In fact, marriage is starting to be a long way off, and the childless years are somewhat forgotten.

Within family life, there are also issues of education that emerge.

As…

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