Why a compatible marriage may not be magic between the sheets

YOU’VE got a 21st century marriage. You share household chores and childcare. You accommodate each other’s careers.

Why a compatible marriage may not be magic between the sheets

You’ve got loads of common interests, chat lots and are great friends. So, with all this compatibility, why aren’t you seeing more action in the bedroom? Surely respecting each other so well as equals should make for better, hotter sex?

Not really, according to Lori Gottlieb, author of Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr Good Enough. In the New York Times recently, she argued that couples who are best friends and divide the housework and childminding have far less sex.

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