"The limerence stage, where you can't keep your hands off each other, lasts six months to two years, then fades, but people think there's something wrong with them or the relationship. For Dr Sara Nasserzadeh, social psychologist and author of Love By Design, our careers, raising children, caregiving and health changes can all impact physical intimacy. Simply acknowledging that many people go through this and naming it as a season' or phase', rather than a failure', can bring reassurance, she says."
"Check you're OK Often the relationship a person has within themselves gets projected on to their partner, says Dr Orna Guralnik, clinical psychologist and star of Couples Therapy. If someone is depressed, for example, that strips away the ability to take pleasure. That's not about your partner or the relationship. Go back inside yourself and see what's going on with you and what you need to take care of yourself."
Dry spells are common in relationships and do not indicate that partners are broken or that the relationship is failing. The limerence stage, where partners feel intense desire, typically lasts six months to two years before fading. Life demands—careers, childrearing, caregiving, and health changes—can reduce physical intimacy. Personal mental health issues can be projected onto partners, diminishing capacity for pleasure. Expanding sexual vocabulary and redefining foreplay as sex can counteract heteronormative assumptions that prioritize male pleasure. Women who have sex with women report higher orgasm rates, owing to greater communication, longer sessions, and different sexual priorities.
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