Ask a Widow: Yes It’s Okay to Want to Have Sex Again

Rather, this chapter is about how widowed men think about and approach sex. This chapter will also provide some guidance if you want to avoid widowers who are just looking for casual hookups or a friends-with-benefits relationship. Men and women think about sex differently. Men, on the other hand, tend to focus solely on the physical and pleasure aspects of sex.

How easy is it to start a relationship after being bereaved? Three couples tell their stories. C arole Henderson was only 40 when she abandoned her husband Kevin to skin bane in Eighteen months on, she was ready to start dating all over again.