The 21 Best Sex & Love Tips From Cool Old Guys Who’ve Seen it All
Jeremy Helligar
Updated: March 10, 2020
CaptionSometimes the wisest words come “out of the mouth of babes;” or so the age-old idiom goes. But when it comes to love and sex sometimes it takes a veteran at life, someone who’s been there and done that multiple times over, to lead us to the Promised Land of “happily ever after.” Here we share some sage advice about love and sex from 20 old-timers who definitely ought to know. They didn’t write the book on life and romance, but they’ve lived long enough to fill a few volumes.Getty ImagesThe three-time Oscar nominee, 61, has learned that running sharing too much about your relationship with others can backfire. In 2009, the very year he got together with his current partner Spanish actress Ariadna Gil, a reporter from The Guardian asked him if he had a girlfriend. "Well, even if I did I wouldn't talk about it," he said. “If you want to take care of another person, then you don't go round blabbing about them. [I] generally that's what I do. I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.” Mortensen did go on to warn that thinking too much about others’ feelings is a trap he tries hard to avoid: “I try to keep too many plates spinning to satisfy everyone's needs, and if you are not careful you get burnt out and really stressed. You end up saying and doing things that you later regret.”
