Couples often develop "marital cataract"

NOT LOOKING. At the Lay Forum on Simple Menopause Concerns and Sexual Problems at Chong Hua Hospital yesterday, talk drifted onto middle-aged couples becoming disinterest in sex. An audience member stood up and commented that married couples who have been together for several years often develop “marital cataract.” He then explained, “They live together, eat together and sleep together. But they don’t see each other.”

THE SOLUTION? Couples with “marital cataract,” he said, should consult a “spiritual opthalmologist” to make the couple “see” again. He gives this unsolicited advice: Go on a marriage encounter. He said that in one of the sessions, the couples are made to hold hands, look into each other’s eyes and tell each other, “I love you.” He added, “Manglimbawot imong balahibo.”