I Made Peace With My Husband’s One-Sided Decision About Our Sex Life. Then Last Week, It All Changed.

How to Do It I don’t want to do this again. Aug 25, 202612:00 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Jacob Wackerhausen/Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, My husband (a 54-year-old man) and I recently had sex after a long dry spell. It was a complete surprise, and it was … nice. But my feelings about this are very complicated. Why? The dry spell was 19-and-a-half years. I am a 71-year-old woman, and I had accepted that the sexual part of my life was over. That was a decision made unilaterally by my husband after his mother died. After years of doing ever