Mourning sex: How soon is too soon after a partner dies?

How do you deal with conflicted feelings - mourning on one hand, but sexual needs still there on the other? – Photo: David Dvoracek/Unsplash

When a person you love dies, sex is usually the last thing on your mind - at least for a while. Then, gradually, the desire for intimacy returns, and with it, often, a guilty conscience.

All of a sudden, the other one is no longer there - that person whose wrinkles and birthmarks you know by heart. Whose scent you love. The skin on skin contact, the intimacy, the rumpled bed sheets. All this suddenly is no longer.