Bumbling groping all night long – this is what my sex nightmare looks like. And so I saw the sex life of my girlfriend, who has very young lovers after her breakup. But she taught me otherwise.
This piece comes from the stern archives and first appeared in February 2023.
I recently met a newly separated friend for lunch. She beamed at me. “It was a wild weekend,” she says with a grin. But more on that later. She had separated and it was almost a typical story. There was no more sex. She was interested, but not with him. “You know, when I come home and there are still dishes piling up in the sink and laundry lying around, even though he works from home, it turns me off.”
Doing the dishes, buying suitable clothes for the child, tidying up, should all be their job. But there was no appreciation for it. “I find that unsexy,” she says. Couples therapy and sex coaching followed, but all attempts to save the relationship – including because of the child – failed. Meanwhile, she has a corporate career and is buying a condominium, while everything for him is stagnating. Sure, that made the situation worse.
Source: Stern
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