In news that will surprise exactly no one who has ever tried to fix a problem, a woman named Lucia has revealed that the key to reviving her sex life was not a magic pill, but a good old-fashioned conversation with herself in the mirror.

About five years ago, Lucia, who has been with her husband Edwin for 26 years, found her libido so low she thought she'd never want sex again. Blaming pandemic stress and perimenopausal hormones, she felt guilty because, as she put it, 'I love him and want to make him happy.' So she did what any rational person would do: she went to the doctor, got a supplement that may or may not have helped, and then decided the real fix was a mindset shift.

'I knew I had to focus on making sex a priority,' Lucia explained. On days she didn't want to have sex, she'd look in the mirror and say: 'I am going to have sex and I am going to enjoy it.' And apparently, it worked. She now claims the quality of their sex improved because she became 'more adventurous in an effort to get things going.' She even started telling Edwin fake sexy stories about imaginary encounters and they play 'the stranger,' where they pretend to be different people meeting for a date. The result? They're back to having sex about three times a week.

Edwin, for his part, is thrilled. 'I'm at a stage in my life where I only fantasise about my wife, which is awesome,' he said, adding that physical touch is his love language. He admits there's 'almost a schedule' to their sex life - 80% of the time it happens before lunch - and they recently bought a remote controlled toy that they tested during dinner. 'We were going through some of its settings with Lucia wearing it,' he revealed, presumably while the waiter was not looking.

Lucia sums it up neatly: 'Things change as you get older, but I don't think that's a bad thing. Life changes and you just have to adapt.' Or, as the rest of us might put it, sometimes you have to tell yourself to get it together, and then just do it. Who knew self-help could be so literal?