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The 7 year itch..

September 13 2012

I was chatting to a friend yesterday and she mentioned a relative was having some rocky times with her bloke. She say's he's not interested in her. He evidently says she won't talk. Both lovely folk, so it's very sad. I asked if it had been about 7 years since their last child. Pretty close. I imagine that what they are saying about each other, is actually a projection of how they feel, not how the other person is behaving. People often project like this.So here's what it could be. Years ago a buddy of mine, who is a Bio-chemist, told me that about 7 years after a woman has her last baby she goes though a pheromonal change. She said this was evidently measurable. As you can imagine the level of attraction to her man will wane. There is a good reason for this. If humanity is to have gene diversity, we cant have women being all lazy and just bearing children to only one man. Lack of genetic diversity causes all sorts of problems in species. The term "Inbred" is even derogatory in our language.So here's a question to those lucky enough to have shared some breeding. Did you have a difficult 7 year hump? A lack of wanting get those nickers down? My Bio-chemist buddy also pointed out that chemical contraceptives also change pheromonal state too. She worked in reproductive technology for a while. They would often get couples coming in who could not conceive, but were totally healthy. Then at the interview she'd find out they were hardly ever having sex. They'd always been on the pill and once they stopped taking it pheromones changed and "yecch, don't touch me". Smell.. such an important thing..

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RHP User

13 years ago

Interesting topic LRE you make some interesting propositions.... Yes smell is a large part of why people are attracted but it had never occurred to me that when on the pill it changes pheremones but now I think about it more closely it makes sense. Indeed it it is unfortunate that there is a seven year itch probably due to wool being the anniversary gift traditionally. There could be some involvement of genes in the phenomenon, as you so rightly pointed out, regarding spreading the diversity of genetic material. I haven't had the experience of a 7 year itch myself and hope not to, but since my last relationship was 10years in the saddle I can only say there is some evidence for serial monogamy. I feel that is a more likely to be a genuine genetic urge to increas genetic diversity. With the added benefit that the young are old enough to be able to look after toddlers at camp/cave. Mike

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13 years ago

Our youngest is six.

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