Does this sound familiar

He’s good-looking, successful and an adventure racer and cyclist with a Two Oceans and a Cape Epic under his belt. Clearly, John Edwards is the archetypal macho man. But when this 39-year-old executive describes his struggle with erectile dysfunction (ED), the
machismo and confidence begin to droop.
“I’d been married for three years but had ‘intimacy issues’ for more than half of that time,” he explains.
“Part of me realised there was a deeper problem but I couldn’t admit it to myself or my wife. It wasn’t that I didn’t feel attracted
to her or my libido was waning. It was just impossible for me to maintain an erection...”

He began looking for excuses for his failure to launch. First he put it down to stress. Then he said he was run down. Finally he considered
the possibility he was depressed.
“After about nine months my wife thought she was to blame,” he says. When she wanted answers, John still couldn’t face the problem. Instead he lied, saying she was
putting too much pressure on him to perform.
“After that the distance between us just grew,” he explains. Unable to cope with the strain, the couple eventually got divorced and in the
aftermath of his failed marriage John thought the problem had passed.
But, a few months into a new relationship, the bedroom bombshell returned. “That’s when I
got help and was medically diagnosed with erectile dysfunction,” he says.