One of the great burdens which our Romantic culture has imposed upon long-term relationships is the idea that love and sexual fulfilment must always, if things are working as they should, fit neatly together.
It’s this sublime idea that begins to torment us when – as is the case in almost every relationship – sex starts with time to get at once less intense and less frequent, more cautious and more frustrating, more at odds with daily life and eventually definitively more daunting as a prospect than reading a book, watching the news together or simply going to sleep…
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