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He had the speech written for eight months. Rehearsed it in the truck on the way home. Knew the first line cold.

Sunday night, after their daughter went to bed, he finally said it. I love you, but I'm not spending the next forty years like this, and if nothing changes I'm leaving.

She nodded and said okay, then you should go. And started loading the dishwasher.


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She told you in year fourteen. She decided in year eight. This is about the six years in between, and why a quiet house is the thing you should have been worried about the whole time.

If the bedroom in your marriage went cold a few years back and you stopped bringing it up because it wasn't worth the fight, this one is for you.

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Three years ago a guy's counselor explained that his wife has responsive desire and he has spontaneous desire, and that neither one is wrong. His wife cried. He felt terrible for all the years he'd been taking it personally. So he backed off.

They've had sex twice since.

Here's the thing. The counselor was probably right. Responsive desire is real science, going b...


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Adam Lane Smith says most wives don't go cold because they stopped caring. He says they go cold because their husbands never learned to give them emotional safety, and most men never got it from their own fathers.

Adam is an attachment specialist, a former marriage and family therapist, a father of six, and 18 years married. He sat down with me LIVE and we covered a lot...


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A guy wrote to me last week with something he says he's never told another human being.

Fourteen months without sex. He stopped asking back in February, not as a strategy, just because he got tired of the way she goes still instead of saying no. Then last Tuesday his wife brought up having a third baby.
And here's the part he can't say out loud to anybody: when the...


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