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This is how we do it: ‘After marriage counselling, she no longer wants the lights off and the covers on’

Financial, work and child-rearing pressures had killed off their sex life, but therapy gave Henry and Kelly an insight into each other’s perspective • How…

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The Guardian reports: Financial, work and child-rearing pressures had killed off their sex life, but therapy gave Henry and Kelly an insight into each other’s perspective • How do you do it?

Share the story of your sex life, anonymously I stopped trying to initiate sex. If it passed the six-month mark, she would initiate.

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United Kingdom · Europe
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The Guardian
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Henry, Kelly
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Lifestyle

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