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Would you go on A SEX STRIKE?

‘I FIRST INSTIGATED A SEX BAN TO GET HIM TO PROPOSE AND SET A DATE FOR US TO GET HITCHED’

Emma Reid, 55, is a charity sector volunteer. She lives in Cardiff with her husband Kevin, 61.

Kevin and I met 20 years ago on a blind date, and I knew immediately that he was the perfect man for me. From the off we were sexually compatible – we were very much that couple who were always touching and kissing one another and, two decades later, our sex life is still pretty good.

My reason for implementing a sex ban might not strike you as very serious. But, believe me, it was an important issue to me. I’d been waiting a decade for a new kitchen and I wanted him to share some of my frustration. It wasn’t as though we didn’t have the money. We could get it by releasing a lump sum from Kevin’s pension – yet he kept putting it off.

For years he said that Badger, our springer spaniel, would destroy a new kitchen. When friends came over I was embarrassed by the state of the room. It

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