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How to Keep Your Relationship Hot and Be a Doting Parent
Preserve your sexy time with these practical tips
It’s Friday evening, and it’s been a long week at work. You come home, and the house is a mess, but you’ll get to it tomorrow. Right now, all you want to do is go half on a bottle of Malbec with your lover and have each other for dessert. It’s been a while, a long while, and you both deserve hot, naked sexy time. You slip into the bathtub while your partner reads your son a bedtime story and tucks him into bed. The candles are lit. The incense is swirling. And bae is looking finer than ever before — or maybe you’re just sleep-deprived.
Things are getting hot and heavy, and just when you’re about to get on your knees, you hear “Mommmmyyyyyy!” from the other room and the padding of little feet making their way toward your bedroom. With a deep sigh, you cover yourself up and try to cut him off before he comes in and decides he wants to sleep with both of you tonight.
This is what your life has become, and, quite frankly, you’re tired of it. You were looking forward to pouring hot wax on your lover’s buttcheeks, and here comes your kiddo wanting yet another story. Like many parents, you may find yourself caught in a cycle of delaying sexual gratification for the sake of your children…
