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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't men just accept that romantic relationships change over time? So what started out as a high degree of physical desire has quietly mutated into a relationship of deep security, comfort, trust, mutual respect, love, affection, and, yes, less sex.

Seriously, everything else in life changes over time. What stays exactly the same over a 20 year time span or more?[/quote]
Why can't women just accept that monogamous relationships change over time? So what started out as a total commitment to seek intimacy only with the partner you love has quietly mutated into a relationship where their rejection of your affection has driven you to seek this elsewhere.

Seriously, everything else in life changes over time. What stays exactly the same over a 20 year time span or more?[/quote]

Seeking sex elsewhere would erode the security, trust, and respect that had been built up over time though.
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So does avoiding/denying/rejecting sex on a repeated basis.  [/quote]

Athol Kay said it well in The Married Man Sex Life Primer:

“Marriage is, at its heart, a sexual relationship.  Without the sex it’s just a legally binding friendship, which is a needlessly complicated way of having a friend.  A basic agreement of being married is to meet each other’s sexual needs and not to run round getting them met anywhere else.  Both affairs and sexless marriages break that relationship agreement.”
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