10 Reasons My Body Filed Intimacy Under "Not Essential" - Even Though I Love Him (And What Worked Better Than Date Night)

10 Reasons My Body Filed Intimacy Under "Not Essential" - Even Though I Love Him (And What Worked Better Than Date Night)

Including the one mistake 9 out of 10 women make every single day, without ever realizing it. (See Reason #7) 

Written by Megan R.

Guest Contributor | Women's Health

Last Month, I reached for him first.

Hi, I'm Megan. Thirty-four, married ten years, two kids, and I do billing for a dental group outside Columbus.


I had my life pretty well handled.


But my drive? I'd stopped expecting anything from it a long time ago.


It started slowly. At first I blamed the newborn year. Then the toddler year. Then just being tired.


And somewhere in there, it stopped being about being tired. It became something I had to be talked into.

Two years. That's how long it had been since I wanted to be touched.


Meanwhile my body was doing other things I didn't order. Acne along my jaw at thirty-four. Crazy sugar cravings I never had before. And my face looked puffy in every photo.

 

So I tried everything you're supposed to try.

 

Couples therapy? Twice. Both times we left feeling closer - but nothing changed.


Date nights? We did the sitter, the restaurant, the whole production.


And I spent the entire dinner performing a woman who was looking forward to the drive home.


The lingerie I bought? Worn once. It’s still in the bag it came in.


The supplements? I self-diagnosed on Reddit and ordered ashwagandha, maca, three kinds of magnesium and a book about seed cycling.


That cost me around $200, and I had no way to tell whether any single one of them was doing anything.


Eventually I made peace with it. I decided this was the trade you make for a life with two kids and a mortgage.

Then a nurse I know explained something nobody had bothered to tell me.

 

“Years of stress don't just wear you down. They make your body pick. It funds your heart, your blood sugar, your kids - and it stops funding whatever it can survive without.”

 

Intimacy comes off that list before anything else does.”

 

So my body wasn't broken. It was triaging.

That one sentence took the guilt off me.


Because it wasn't me. And it wasn't him either.


It was a decision my body made without asking me.


That was ten months ago. What she put me on gave me more than my drive back. It gave me back the feeling of being myself inside my own marriage.


And here are 10 reasons why:

1. I reached for him first

For me it landed around week eight.


I walked past him in the kitchen and put my hand on his back (and it wasn't a chore). Nobody had to ask. Nobody had to be talked into anything.


Sounds like nothing. But it was the biggest thing that had happened to me in two years.

2. I stopped buying a fix for every symptom

The chin hairs. The adult acne. The three a.m. wake-ups with my heart going. The cravings. The puffy face. And the sock marks by dinner.


I treated only the thing I could see instead of the thing underneath it.


Handle the root cause and the whole list goes quiet on its own.

3. Works where nothing else did

You can sleep in, take the vacation and book every date night on the calendar:


As long as your body spends everything it has on stress, there is nothing left over for the rest.


That's the one thing the four ingredients change.

4. "You've been different lately. In a good way."

My husband said that in the car, about five weeks in. I had never told him I was taking anything.


No wonder over 41,390 women have rated Luna Balance 5 stars.

5. Feeling like myself again

What I missed most wasn't the sex.


It was getting touched out of nowhere and not going stiff.


And going to bed without a plan for how to avoid it.

6. The first thing I ever actually finished

Everything I'd bought before died in that cabinet by week three. This goes into my water bottle before I've even sat down.


It’s sugar-free. It has ten calories. And it tastes like something I'd drink anyway.


The reason it works so well is that I actually do it.

7. The biggest mistake 9 out of 10 women make

Date night puts you in a nice restaurant. But it only ever works on the evening.


Your body reads the whole production as one more thing it has to deliver on. And pressure is the exact input that shut this down in the first place.


A glass of wine loosens you up. That holds for about two hours.

But nothing underneath it moved, and by morning you're right back where you started (only now on worse sleep).

Both of them treat the mood, not the cause.

And you blame yourself, even though it was NEVER you who was the problem.


It's not your age. You're not doing it all wrong:

 

It's the method itself.

8. Cheaper than the endless experiments

Add up what you've spent the last two years on supplements, date nights, sitters and therapy sessions that never touched the actual problem.


Yeah. Ouch. I stopped counting at $900.


Luna Balance costs a fraction of that. And right now every order comes with an extra free pack on top.

9. Dosed at the amounts the studies actually used

Single-ingredient supplements are dosed to fit inside a capsule. For myo-inositol that's usually 500 mg.


The research it's based on runs at 2,000 mg a day. One stick holds the full amount.


To get all four at those levels from separate bottles, you'd be swallowing around nine capsules every morning.

10. Two full cycles to see it for yourself

I didn't have to gamble on it. My friend had already told me what to expect and when.


You don't have that friend. You have 90 days instead, opened pouches included.


Which is exactly the window this needs.

One last thing before you go

You're not doing anything wrong.


You just happen to live in a decade that decided a woman running on empty for ten years is normal - and that the parts of her going quiet are a personality issue.


They're not. It’s your body making cuts.


And there's one thing you have to get right, or it won't work:

Your body doesn't reverse a two-year decision in ten days. The mornings got calmer first, around week two. Wanting anything took until the end of the second cycle.


One pouch is 30 days.

And here's the mistake I made:

I ordered only a single pouch to test it.

It ran out. When I went to reorder, Wild Berry Lemonade had been sold out for five weeks. By week three of that gap, I was flinching in the kitchen again.


So take the three-month supply.


That's what two full cycles plus a buffer actually looks like, and it's the only way a restock doesn't put you back at the beginning.


You've got 90 days to send all of it back either way. Opened pouches included. You get a full refund.


So if the last two years have sounded anything like mine:


Go look into your hormones.


Wishing you the very best,


Megan R.

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