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It's Not You. It's My Nervous System.

It's Not You. It's My Nervous System.

It's Not You. It's My Nervous System.Joyce McCall, RN, BSN
Published on: 29/07/2026

In midlife, desire often stops arriving on its own and starts answering instead. Why that shift gets misread as rejection, and how to talk about it. A lack of initiation is not a lack of attraction.

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