You might assume you would be able to tell if your marriage was in trouble from the state of your sex life.
After all, studies show that couples who have sex regularly are more likely to report greater relationship satisfaction.
But does a healthy sex life always indicate a healthy marriage? And, crucially, what constitutes ‘healthy’? Couples counsellor Annabelle Knight warns that the correlation between your bedroom activities and the state of your marriage is more complicated than people think – and that frequent sex doesn’t necessarily protect you from a break-up.
‘The idea that a healthy sex life is only about sex
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