Lies You've Been Told About Love

Once the honeymoon stage is over, the passion starts to wane, right? You've farted in front of each other and there is no mystery left, and not much intimacy either. People have probably warned you that, eventually, the sex is going to become practically nonexistent in your relationship. But, actually, that's just another lie you've been told about love.

Marriage researcher John Gottman explained it this way: "As long as the cost of saying 'no' to an invitation to sex by one's partner is just slightly positive (and not zero), I showed that the couple will have a lot of sex." When there is a negative response from your partner when you decline sex, you may have sex less often. So, it's true for some couples that they'll have less sex over time, but it doesn't have to work that way.

Laurie Watson, a couples and sex therapist, told Bustle that couples in long-term relationships actually have more sex than single people. In addition to this, Watson says that women have more orgasms when they're in a committed relationship.