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More TMI....Sex everyday - good for you?
So, MH sends me this article today about how good sex is for you. Of course, all he sees is the title, but I imagine it could be good for your relationship. Could be tiring (!), but I bet it could really bring you closer. I've heard of couple having sex every day for a specified period of time all with positive results.
We are hardly ever on the same page when it comes to sex so I promised him that we could do this for the month of January. Granted, he works out of town 4 days a week usually, but we'll see what it does for us.
Here's the article....anyone ever thought about sex every day for a month?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/01/07/sex.health.benefits/index.html
Re: More TMI....Sex everyday - good for you?
TN had an article about some couples who had to (well, they volunteered for this "challenge", of course) have sex every day for 8 consecutive days or something like that. Almost all of them said that even just 8 days was difficult! I can't imagine a whole month!
Like you Amy, I don't see DH every day. Maybe like 6 days in a good month?
I've read that the benefits of sex actually max out after something like 3 times a week (every other day or so)...I wonder if that's true? At any rate, right now poor DH is lucky to be getting it once a week, let alone once a day!
I'm gonna totally shock the hell out of my husband and try it.....
IN my late 20's early 30's I was a horndog...whenever I had a steady it was sex all the time. I don't know what happened though the thought of sex everyday for a month...ugh....could be some chaffing involved. Ha!!
i agree with Heather..when I was younger (not too long ago haha), i can handle sex everyday (not everyday for a month though) but now, idk lol. Just the thought of doing it everyday for a month is tiring lol. There's just too many life responsiblities to do now. I have to clean the house, do laundry, cook dinner, etc etc..
the article says, frequent sex promotes healthier semen but i have read that when you're TTCing, you should do it every other day to increase sperm count?!
I need to find Lisa's research and tell Todd that 3 times a week is the max or it gets counter productive!!!
I agree with you Heather, when I was younger, it was ON!!! In my late 30s, not so much. I'm just hoping this cures Todd of his daily request for sex. Which, frankly, gets old and he doesn't get that the more he asks, the less he gets.
I wish the age thing worked for him too....he'll be 48 next month, when does it end?!?
And, Ericka, bring on the TMI! We are too tame and baby-related around here!
However, on the baby note...Heather, I'm so happy to see your ticker!!!
Haha - no not me! I just follow somebody else's lead :-P.
Cute sig photo of you and Todd :-).
Yeah...I don't know if I could do every day for a whole month. At that point I think it would just feel like a chore. :P
My friends who are TTC -- including the guys -- complain all the time about how it's just one more thing they need to check off their list everyday, and that it actually adds to the stress rather than helps relieve it.
I'm actually kinda relieved to hear your opinions on this. MH and I used to do it all the time in the first few years of our relationship, but now 8 years later...not so much. We enjoy it when we get around to it, and we're both on the same page about the frequency, but sometimes I feel like we should be doing it more sometimes. I guess not everyone is doing it like bunnies every single day!
I feel badly, but we're like once a week too. We're both wiped during the week - and he's taking two classes on top of working full time. There's no way I could commit to that!
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So true....I think everyone thinks everyone else is having MUCH more sex than they actually are!
i was lurking on the Sex & Romance board one time and I was suprised to know that on the average, married couples have sex ~1 to 2x a week. Also,
"One in five married couples have a non-sexual marriage (being sexual less than ten times a year). Three in ten non-married-couples who have been together longer than two years have a non-sexual relationship." i notice that that we do it more when we're on vacation because we're both relaxed, don't have to worry about cooking dinner or doing the laundry :-P.
We did it everyday for several months when we first got together. Sometimes 2-3 times a day! But that was long ago when we were in our mid-20's! LOL!
When we're on vacation we tend to get it on everyday (at least), but at home life is so busy and well, unfortunately that means we're only knocking boots once a week if we're lucky. That said, when we decided to TTC it was sort of exciting like when we first got together because we were getting it on everyday for like 2+ weeks!
Once the baby is born and I am ready to go there I hope to make it more of a priority...so that we at least do it once a week. It's one of those things...sort of like working out...it always seems like there is no time or you're too tired but once you do it, you're SO glad you did and you feel great.
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We totally schedule it...we have to...it's so rare that we're even home at the same time. And often times I am asleep before J even gets home from work. We have found that weekend mornings are best...so it's not like we put in on the calendar, but usually around Thursday or Friday we'll start making little inuendos, etc. about our weekend "fun time."
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I'm not embarrassed to say that we schedule it. When I hit the second trimester and I still wasn't in the mood to get it on (I feel so huge and awkward that I rarely am right now), I told Ben that although I was struggling to feel sexy, I didn't want that part of our relationship to disappear either (especially since for some reason, the more I get the more I want, but the less I get the less I want - the urge doesn't build up in me if I don't get laid, it just kind of fades away). So we made a deal that we wouldn't go longer than 2 weeks without doing the deed, and that, like Lori, we'd try to go for once every weekend. So far it's worked out - on the weekends I'm not quite so exhausted, and Ben has something to look forward to.
We don't write it on a calendar or anything, but we both know when it's coming!
I'm not embarrassed to say that we schedule it. When I hit the second trimester and I still wasn't in the mood to get it on (I feel so huge and awkward that I rarely am right now), I told Ben that although I was struggling to feel sexy, I didn't want that part of our relationship to disappear either (especially since for some reason, the more I get the more I want, but the less I get the less I want - the urge doesn't build up in me if I don't get laid, it just kind of fades away). So we made a deal that we wouldn't go longer than 2 weeks without doing the deed, and that, like Lori, we'd try to go for once every weekend. So far it's worked out - on the weekends I'm not quite so exhausted, and Ben has something to look forward to.
We don't write it on a calendar or anything, but we both know when it's coming!