Sex File: I am jealous of my divorced friends' new sex lives

I am in my mid-forties and I've been happily married to my husband for eight years. However, several of my close female friends have divorced over the past few years and experienced a kind of sexual awakening since then. I don't want to leave my marriage, so why is seeing them so satisfied with their sex lives making me question the strength of mine?

Comparison is the death of contentment. Seriously. From the confines of your stable, happy marriage with a regular sex life, envying your friends for their post-divorce sexual awakening is pointless. You say that you want what they have - novelty, not having to answer to anyone - yet you don't seem to be fully considering that they had to go through divorce to find their freedom.

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