Tag: sexless marriage

• From the First Baby to the Empty Nest: What Actually Happens to a Couple’s Sex Life

  Nobody hands you a timeline on your wedding day. There’s no leaflet tucked into the order of service explaining that the way you want each other at 28 will look nothing like the way you want each other at 48, and that the shift will happen so slowly you’d struggle to name the year anything…

• Essay: Sexless Marriage: Why It Happens, How Long It Lasts, and What Married People Actually Do About It

  Janet is 52. She lives near Reading. She and her husband haven’t had sex in just over four years. She knows the exact stretch because she remembers the last time — a Tuesday evening, a takeaway curry, half a bottle of wine, neither of them quite paying attention. She didn’t know it was going to…