Life’s simple pleasures: shopping, socialising, sleeping and sex. Though, chances are — whether you’re in a long-term relationship or nurturing a new one — when the demands of everyday stresses and tedious tasks takeover, tender loving care is last on the to-do list. Low priority. And, even when you do feel in a friskier mood, you may find your partner is otherwise erotically undercharged. Also known as ‘falling out of sexual sync’.
According to therapists, it’s one of the most common reasons couples seek counselling. The desire is there, just not at the same time of day or night. Such as, for instance, in a particularly tense scene on-screen in The White Lotus when Harper walks in on her husband Ethan watching porn on his laptop. Annoyed, she asks him why he didn’t wait for her. “You don’t like morning sex,” he responds.
