“Love lasts three years,” said French novelist Frederic Beigbeder. “The love boat crashed into everyday life,” the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky complained many years before him.
This really happens often: money, children, relatives, work and everything else that surrounds the relationship of two when they start living together, deprive these very relationships of romantic intensity. Does this mean that love is doomed? Fortunately, no. Sexologist Esther Perel calls for «defying the ordinary» and explains how to develop your erotic intelligence and how to avoid the pitfalls of family life, such as childcare at the expense of sex life, boredom, mutual misunderstanding and infidelity.
Mann, Ivanov & Ferber, 240 pp., 2015.