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If you’re one of those couples who somehow has kept thing spicy and exciting in the bedroom after a decade, well, this isn’t for you, but also you’re an anomaly and should count your lucky stars every day. As for the rest of us for whom life gets in the way of our romance—for whom the busy schedules, demanding careers, attempts to keep a social life alive, stress, and general ups and downs makes it a little hard to make sex a priority—we can get desperate. You know that sex is an important part of intimacy. And even though you don’t expect to have it every day (or even every week) forever, you know you can’t just let it…die. Sex in a long-term relationship is such a funny thing. The nature of sex should be playful and spontaneous, but sometimes it just can’t be. Or, our attempts to keep things sexy are…anything but. Here are ways you try to revive your sex life that just make things worse.
Trying to distract him from his work
You think you’ll just be assertive, but in a sexy way. While he’s working at his desk, you’ll just put on some lingerie, sit on his lap, and shut that computer—tell him he can get back to it later. But…you just accidentally closed out a program that had a very important live document on it, and you just deleted all of his work. And now he’s furious—not turned on.
