DEAR DEIDRE: WE were at a party at the weekend and I cheekily gave my partner oral sex in the bathroom.
I thought I would get my reward later but he was staying with me at my parents, where I live at the moment.
My boyfriend always comes up with excuses to avoid having sex with me[/caption]
I was naked in bed hoping to give him the hint but he just rolled away from me and went to sleep.
I’m 24 and he’s 26 and that’s how it is all too often these days. He blames my family or the flatmates where he lives, but those sound to me like excuses.
Sex was regular at the start of our relationship but now two months can go by without it.
We are saving for a place of our own and would like kids eventually but first you have to have sex . . .
DEIDRE SAYS: Have a talk with him and say you worry that your sex life is fading away.
It sounds as though the passion is being submerged by practicalities – saving up, worrying about family and flatmates overhearing.
Your bathroom move was on the right track. Why not find somewhere else private or get into camping weekends?
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