but that doesn’t make it any easier — for some — when a week without sex turns into a month and a month turns into a year or longer. we have been in and out of therapy, dealing with everything. i started marking off time to have sex to make sure we did so at least every six months. we are friends, and i stopped trying for more. i was dissuaded from standing up for myself in part by the …

if there’s little or even no sex in your marriage, here’s some sexless marriage help! distress, resentment, and a sense of betrayal or deprivation, can corrode a couples affection, and their marriage can become at risk for survival. the first step in getting sexless marriage help is to understand the factors contributing to the problem. in order to know for sure which of the problem categories are relevant to your situation, and therefore what kind of sexless marriage help you’re …

there are many temptations to organize our life around the experience of earlier trauma. over time, you notice that one or two of these departments are not performing up to par. areas of the marriage such as romance and sex succumb to exhaustion and the realities of what is entailed in caring for and raising little ones. the user then has to use more and more of the substance to feel that same high.

other factors, such as women’s liberation …

everyone’s definition of a “normal” sex life varies, and if a sexless marriage works for your relationship, there’s no need to change it up. when discussing sexuality, one has to do away with the term normal as there is a lot of self-judgement and shame involved. the couple does these exercises on their own at home and then returns to a couples’ session to discuss their reactions and what turned them on so as to build momentum. before introducing the …

“i loved the feeling of knowing that they both cared about me and i cared about them as well.” but wenzel is no scheming adulteress. “i am happier now than i ever have been,” says wenzel, a canadian sex and relationship therapist and author of “a happy life in an open relationship: the essential guide to a healthy and fulfilling nonmonogamous love life” (chronicle books; out tuesday). “catherine and i excused ourselves to the bedroom, where we had a very …