Guess What We Do Every Night? ; When Charla Muller's Husband Brad Turned 40, She Decided to Give Him a Present He'd Never Forget - Sex with Her Every Day for a Year. Here She Tells Us What It Did for Their Marriage

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The idea behind offering my husband Brad sex every day for a year to celebrate his 40th birthday was to give him a gift that no one else could. I felt that we needed the gift of connection, a gift for our eight-year marriage and ten-year relationship. I wanted to do something so dramatic and different that he would never, ever pause to remember what I gave him for his 40th birthday. And I wanted him to smile every time he remembered.

I then had to lay down the ground rules. We will discuss and schedule time for intimacy, I said. He complained that discussing sex somehow detracted from its loveliness. Well, I pointed out, you cannot be married, have a job, two children to feed and a house to keep and have passionate, spontaneous connections. Another rule was that we wouldn't allow television to trump intimacy; and yet another, that either of us could decline on any occasion.

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Guess What We Do Every Night? ; When Charla Muller's Husband Brad Turned 40, She Decided to Give Him a Present He'd Never Forget - Sex with Her Every Day for a Year. Here She Tells Us What It Did for Their Marriage

As the date - 3 July - approached, I was nervous, but also excited. 'How will you manage it?' I asked myself. There were so many variables and distractions - energy, availability, nosy kids, ringing phones, housework. But when I thought about it I realised that we did, indeed, have time. After the children were in bed we spent our evenings watching TV, or on the computer, or reading; sometimes together, sometimes doing our own thing. Our sex life had become pretty abysmal:...

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