When it comes to our personal lives, why do Americans say one thing and do another?
Particularly when it comes to the most intimate centers of our lives – marriage and children.
In some remarkable research into personal lives by the Pew Research Center earlier this year, people displayed a tolerance for others that goes far beyond the latitude they allow themselves.
And it’s not just a reaction to…
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Dr Andy Attwood says that 17 per cent of married people live in a “sexless marriage”, which means that they have sex 10 times a year, or less .
And that, he says, is far from being a ‘huge and monstrous marriage buster’.
Dr Attwood has spent his professional life helping couples through marriage-busting stresses, and he says that sexless marriage is ‘truly normal stuff for a couple to be dealing with’.
Writing in his book Hopeful Solutions for Your Sexless Marriage, he says that he treats ‘the struggle you are having with your sexless marriage as a challenge facing both you and your partner’.
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Like most things we do, dating has some good bits and some boring bits. Or bits we simply can’t get up the nerve to do.
Well, who said you have to do it all? Why not just do what you love, and leave the rest to someone else?
Tim Ferriss starts off a recent blog post with these titillations:
Can you outsource your dating? I did.
Can you outsource your worrying? AJ Jacobs did.
Why the drive to advertise? The bottom line is that these two groups are trying to minimise the suffering so many of us needlessly put ourselves through.