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When you’ve been with someone for long enough, sex has the tendency to become monotonous.
I’d say it’s pretty common misconception that sex in a long-term relationship ends up feeling like a chore.
Rather than being something you need to do but don’t want to, it becomes something that you do so often that it becomes a part of the routine. Excitement becomes efficiency.
Efficient sex, writes sex therapist Petra Zebroff for Psychology Today, is ‘fast, direct, and based on what a person knows will work to give their partner pleasure and reach orgasm’.