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Luisa Tam

The Naked Truth | How couples can keep their sex life and relationship hot during lockdown

  • Introduce a sense of novelty and adventure to keep things exciting like role playing, using sex toys or scheduling sexy date nights together
  • Have sex in an unusual part of the apartment or flick through the Kama Sutra for a new position you haven’t tried before

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Spending all your time in coronavirus lockdown can put pressure on couples’ sex lives and relationships. Hare are some tips on keeping the passion burning. Photo: Getty Images

Working from home for an extended period of time to prevent the spread of the coronavirus has had many social and psychological impacts.

But it has also inadvertently turned the romantic concept of spending the rest of your life with someone you love on its head.

Spending a life together is not quite the same as spending every minute of the day together, as couples working from home all over the world are finding out. Facing increasing stress, many are beginning to fear that the pandemic could ruin their relationships, and in more ways than one.

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When you are in love, especially at the beginning, there is no such thing as spending too much time together. It’s always fun and exciting as you get to know each other. But to allow your relationship to thrive and last, spending some time apart can be beneficial in the long run.

Sex in home lockdown does not have to be boring or routine. There are a few ways to spice things up. Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Sex in home lockdown does not have to be boring or routine. There are a few ways to spice things up. Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto
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You need to know how to draw a line between spending time together and spending all your time together. This can be done by creating appropriate boundaries to allow each other to do their own thing and have their private spaces. To put it another way, couples must learn how to spend quality time together.

But with the current situation, where most couples are forced to do everything together 24/7, it’s definitely way too much and could affect their emotional and physical relationships. Couples working from home together during this time will tend to lose a sense of excitement for each other.

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