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How loneliness kills marriages

Newlyweds or couples starting out spend lots of time doing things together, talking about each other’s ideas and opinions, discussing their plans for the future and so on. And forever making out of course!

But inevitably, all that excitement starts to fade sooner or later. And perhaps one of them starts to neglect the other. Their emotional intimacy falls as they spend less and less time talking together. And so their physical intimacy also starts to drop.

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