If your love life is lacking, you’re not alone
Experts are seeing an upswing in ‘sexless marriages’



• 'Sexless marriage' on the rise, experts say
March 27: NBC's Nancy Snyderman takes a look at sex after marriage and
the rise in what some experts are calling "sexless marriage."
NBC News Web Extra






By Dr. Nancy Snyderman
Chief medical editor
NBC News
Updated: 4:41 p.m. CT March 28, 2007


Dr. Nancy Snyderman
Chief medical editor


NEW YORK -

For the nation's 59 million married couples, there's a lot to worry
about — money, child-rearing, even who does the chores. All are issues
couples can disagree on. But there's another issue — potentially just as
damaging to marriage — that many couples face but can't talk about —
intimacy.

"At least 40 percent of the people that come to see me are in what they
consider to be, or I consider to be, a sexless marriage," says sex
therapist Dr. Laura Berman of the Berman Center in Chicago.



Experts see an upswing in sexless marriages, defined as one in which the
couple has sex fewer than 10 times a year, landing a lot of couples in
therapy.

"When a couple isn't having sex, that really starts to diminish the
intimacy and the connection in their relationship, and really takes its
toll on their relationship," Berman says.

"We both weren't happy," says Marcus Allen. "So that's when we knew we
had a problem."

"... and the passion was gone," Allen's wife, Tamica, says.

They admit to finding themselves at an impasse.

"I was depressed, sad, frustrated," Tamica says.

"We thought that we were alone in that, and knowing that we weren't
really helped us to see, to set some realistic expectations," Marcus
says.

After an intensive period of therapy that addressed the physical,
psychological and emotional aspects of their relationship, Marcus and
Tamica made a fresh start.

"It starts with communication, and it starts with understanding each
other and just being there," Marcus says.

2 hell with that!

I second that buttons!!!

I guess I have to "THIRD" that motion!

why be married?LOL

Been there, never again. And yes you lose the intimacy and it's all
downhill from there

This why I tell you Will Ferrell next movie should be called..... ****
Sanders - Dildo Salesman!!

LOL i dont think sexless marriage is the correct term... couples just
arent having sex with eachother... LMAO..

Yeah, they could be having sex with OTHER married people

You got that right! The last couple years of my marriage my husband was
the only one getting any........

OMG...Look who it is ...Hi Lily

Hey, Sluggo, baby!!!!

iceprincess is right, why even BE married if you cannot have the
intimate, loving relationship that the closness brings? Not to mention
the other GREAT parts of that PART of a relationship!

They should read Corinthians!