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Many married couples in Kenya are miserable, lonely and sexually starved

If you spoke to the average couple on camera about their marriage, they will smile and tell you how happily married they are and how much they love their families. However, deep down, most marriages are flat at best if not in a crisis altogether. Most married people live in the same house, sleep in the same bed, have occasional sex, have children but they are certainly not a couple. Husbands spend their weekdays at work and the weekends with the boys. Wives spend weekdays at work and the weekends in chamas, salon and/or with the girls. Indeed, many married men and women go about their lives as if they were single.

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