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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every other day there is a post on here about sexual frequency and complaints about the sex drying up in long term relationships. Um, welcome to earth? No it's not just you!! This has ALWAYS been an issue throughout the ages. People have really never heard about this problem before?? I mean, it's unfortunate, depending upon your pov, but that's life. It's what happens. A LOT of people need novelty, excitement, and tension to turn them on and those things are just not going to be present in super long relationships. I'm really curious if people think it is actually realistic to expect to have hot, spontaneous sex 3-4 a week after you've been married for 16 YEARS (and probably together for closer to twenty)? Even hot, spontaneous sex once a week, every week for years on end. Once in a while? Sure. Duty sex one or twice a week? Yes. But the rest? I mean really.[/quote]

Well, there is a lot more information now and it is way more publicized.  Also it is impossible not to know about once you start frequenting parenting websites like this one, but by that point one is typically already dealing with it.  Also, like many things, you can't really understand what it means until you experience it yourself.

As for why people are in denial about it?  Because accepting reality forces one to choose from a set of bad options: suffer, cheat, or leave.  Is it any wonder most prefer wishful thinking?[/quote]

Or just accept that it is normal and the way things are now?[/quote]

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