It offers people a lot of support, even if it becomes a less central part of life later on. But we're talking about much later on. If you don't have an active sex life when you're 50 or 60, that's because one of you is a bad sexual partner and the other person doesn't want to talk about it. It's not because you're too old. Barring illness and disability, I mean.
Women often compromise in relationships.
When you' re married to someone who won't meet you halfway. Women often shoulder a large part of the emotional burden, but that s because they are afraid to insist that their partners pick up their share for fear of finding out that the guys cannot, that they simply don't have the emotional resources to do the work of having a good relationship. The women don't want to know that, and so they don't ask. Then let somebody else have him by all means. In a spouse, look for what you would look for in a friend, plus sexual attractiveness.