You know that thing you do where you get home, exhausted after a day of shuffling Very Important Documents for Very Important Clients? The kind of day when your boss has been bellowing halitotic insults in your direction every three minutes and you entertain sadistic fantasies of refashioning his face with a stapler?
The thing you do when you’ve been on your feet since six in the morning, your Humvee’s blown a tire and you’ve spent three of the last four hours cleaning up cat sick?
You know, that thing.
The thing where you sack off a proper dinner, and you and your wife stick a plastic carton of chicken jalfrezi in the microwave, open a bottle of Chablis and collapse in front of the TV?
GREAT, isn’t it?
The. Best. Thing. Ever.
Your day’s burdens drift effortlessly away as you fill your stomach with Delhi’s finest foodstuffs, and your mind switches from ‘on’ to ‘off’ in the time it takes Eva Longoria to stroll minxily down the stairs in her claret negligée.
Bliss.
But you know that other thing? The elephant-in-the-room-thing? The one that you don’t talk about for fear of making it worse. The one where you …
… HAVEN’T HAD SEX WITH YOUR WIFE FOR MONTHS?
Yep. Thought so.
THE TWO ARE CONNECTED. If you spend the evenings mindlessly shovelling food into your gormless gob, you will have less sex.
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You say:
“Sure, but but but, it’s nothing to do with our eating habits. The bedroom and the kitchen aren’t connected. The most sex we’ve ever had was on our honeymoon and THAT’S NORMAL. We don’t even want to have more sex. We’re TIRED at the end of the day. No energy. We work hard. Sure, we might collapse in front of the idiot-box, but even if we didn’t, we wouldn’t be actually, you know, sleeping with each other. That’s for teenagers.”
I say:
Whatever.
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So this is how you have more sex:
Irrespective of your shitty day, of the bollockings you’ve got about missed deadlines and not bringing in more clients, irrespective of the size of your tax bill and weight of your kids, do this:
- Turn your chicken jalfrezi out of its packaging, stick it on a plate, and set the table for two.
- EAT AT THE DINNER TABLE
- Have a conversation.
- Don’t fall asleep with your plate on your lap (much easier if you’re eating at a table).
- Retire to the bedroom after a scintillating and thoughtful conversation that reminds you why you’re married in the first place.
- Initiate some sweet loving and annoy the neighbours with your amorous yelps.
No Nookie = Vicious Circle = No Nookie.
Alternatively, keep eating semi-prostrate and enjoy a barren future, a widening posterior, chronic constipation and diverticulitis. Oh, and no sex.
EAT MEALS SITTING AT THE DINNER TABLE AND HAVE MORE SEX