Author, D. Denise Dianaty
1 min readMar 5, 2023

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No. This is simply not true. Contrary to what pop-culture and young men want us all to believe, sex is not the determiner of healthy relationships. Sex really doesn't have much to do with relationships. Sex is the result of attraction and passion. Early in a relationship, passion seems like the live all and be all of romantic expression. It's great, but it's not what's going to keep a couple together.

Besides, a constant state of passion is exhausting. Every relationship deserves to get comfortable. In a healthy and loving relationship, passion may wane, but it will come around again. That comfortable ability to be in each other's company without words or angling for the bed will carry you longer in happiness than sex. If you cannot be loving and comfortable together during those waning passion times, then you never had a fully actualized relationship to begin with.

I've been married for going on 32 years and we are committed and deeper in love with every passing year. Passion comes around less frequently, but that has never been an idicator of the state of our fully actualized, state of wedded bliss relationship. That has come because we dedicated ourselves to each other and to the work of our relationship.

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Author, D. Denise Dianaty
Author, D. Denise Dianaty

Written by Author, D. Denise Dianaty

Artist, Poet, author, wife & mom May my epitaph be "She reflected love into the world."

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