Only in our 20s — but he’s scheduling time for sex

I’m 27 and I’ve been with my boyfriend for two years. Our sex life has started to drop off a bit. To fix this, he has started scheduling sex. He’s put it in our diaries for twice a week. It seems so clinical to me, and frankly it doesn’t work either. We don’t always do it on the appointed days.

For couples who have big jobs and young children, scheduling is often the only way to ensure that sex doesn’t get squeezed out of the relationship entirely, but when you are 27 and dating, turning sex into an obligation has the opposite effect.