How to take back your sex life in a year like no other
By Meaghan OâConnell
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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 child duty. According to Petro, the always-on nature of parenting a 12-month-old and a three-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 â at times â hopeless, our sex life.