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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
As told to Sarah Phillips

From scheduling sex to being selfish: 10 ways to improve intimacy

‘You can go through the hair a little bit, that’s really nice’ … Rodin’s The Kiss.
‘You can go through the hair a little bit, that’s really nice’ … Rodin’s The Kiss. Photograph: Dea Picture Library/De Agostini/Getty Images

1. Talk about any problems

Things seem to work well without really thinking about it. Then, when it starts going wrong, you don’t quite know how to talk about it, so the situation gets to a point where you’re stuck and you don’t know how to deal with it. The first stage in addressing this is for each person to spend a couple of days thinking about what they see the problem is, and then agreeing to sit down together for a discussion. Take turns saying: “This is what I think the problem is, and this is how it is affecting me.” Out of this comes the opportunity to really get to the heart of the matter and work out what is needed.

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