How Your “Perfect” Marriage Can Harm Your Sex Life and What You Can Do so it Doesn’t

You talk for hours about everything, eat pizza in your sweats, and are still so hot for each other that you do it in elevators. He's your hubby and your buddy. What more could a woman want?

Want or not, the “buddy” marriage unfortunately tends to be more about the "talking" and less about the "gotta have you right now" sex. Naturally wanting to have it all, we spoke with sociologist, sexologist and Author of Love Between Equals: How Peer Marriage Really Works, Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D., to find out what we can do to make sure we get it.

What Exactly is a Buddy Marriage?
According to a study she conducted of couples in traditional and non-traditional marriages to define and analyze buddy marriages or what she calls “peer” marriages Dr. Pepper Schwartz found four distinct characteristics: