My husband has a boom-or-bust approach to our sex life. He'll initiate it every day for a week, or he's totally dormant which can go on for three weeks. If I try to instigate during his 'quiet weeks' there's always a reason why he doesn't want to, or can't. Then out of the blue he's all frisky again.
Like most human responses, libido fluctuates depending on how well a person is feeling, how happy they are, how much free time they have, how much sleep they are getting, and how much they fancy the person they are supposed to be having sex with at that particular moment - for this too can fluctuate.
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