No relationship exists in a bubble, and life can get in the way. As years pass, major events happen, and stresses are introduced to your lives, pushing your relationship down the priority list.
If you have kids, life gets even busier. Or the small niggles that you barely noticed when you were busy loom larger. They may be in their 50s or 60s, depending on when they got together. This is when a relationship reckoning can spring up.
But where do you fit in? What do you want and what do you want as a couple? Shane agrees. Never assume you know everything about your partner, or how they think. These regular check-ins should happen once a week maybe on a Sunday evening. Allow 20 minutes or so for each person to talk about how they felt about their week and anything that may have happened to them. And be prepared to be open and honest in return. In this way, couples can stop something trivial from becoming a more significant issue.
I would have done my best to stop it? Your sex life is an important part of your relationship but it can be impacted by so many things. There is no blueprint for that. Moving into this next phase of your relationship needs to be intentional. If you love to feel attractive, create a situation where you feel that way.
Feeling foolish is good for a relationship. Make time for it - leave notes for each other, send text messages, and make a little bit of effort.
