Take Back Your Sex Life
With all its stress and uncertainty, this year hasn’t exactly been a banner year for intimacy. But that can change.
Credit.Rose Wong
Dec. 26, 2020
Melissa Petro is a 40-year-old writer who lives in New York with her husband of four years and two children. She and her husband switch off between working and kid duty. According to Ms. Petro, the always-on nature of parenting a 12-month-old and a 3-year old in a pandemic has been “relentless, exhausting and not sexy.” Recently her husband has been sleeping on the family room couch.
“It’s not that I don’t want to,” she said, “It’s just that there’s so many things to do besides have sex with my partner, who I do hypothetically find attractive and theoretically want to have sex with. It feels pretty at times hopeless, our sex life.”