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Dr. Edward A. Dreyfus, a clinical psychologist, relationship counselor, sex therapist, and life coach, posts articles and information regarding a variety of psychological issues confronting people every day. In addition, he responds to questions about relationships, sexual difficulties, and other concerns that have been submitted through his website.

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Sunday, October 16, 2005

Sex Is Boring

I am a twenty-seven year old who is married, but find sex boring; I feel like it is a mandatory thing for me to do. How can Imake myself want to make love again with my husband instead of feeling that it is merely an obligation?

You question "...make love again with my husband..." is very revealing. It suggests that at one time you did enjoy sex with your husband. So what happened? Apparently something went awry in the course of your marriage and in your sexual relationship in particular. Making love is similar to dancing. Each party must learn how to dance with a partner; it takes practice. And you must be innovative, experimenting with new steps. However, if there is a problem in the relationship, there isn't going to be much motivation to be adventurous and exploratory. So the first step is explore the nature of your relationship. Is the marriage going stale because there is little effort being expended on one or both your parts to keep the romance alive in the relationship? Are you taking each other for granted? Sexual excitement in a marriage is about what happens outside of the bedroom as well as inside the bedroom.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wouldn't know if sex is boring or not. Married 45years and only had sex once. I was informed that it (sex) was disgusting,messy,smelly,pointless,meaningless,had no excitement, to much work for so little.That was the end of our sex life. Now in mid 60s and really don't care if sex is boring

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