I resented the fact he was sitting around doing nothing while I worked, and he lost his temper quickly. She adds: ‘I tried to get us to reconnect emotionally by encouraging physical intimacy, even though I wasn’t in the mood. Recent data collected by the long-running National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles found physical intimacy between British couples halved during the first lockdown. Thankfully, with the country slowly returning to normal, experts believe our collective libido will soon be back up and running. ‘If the physical connection was still there, I would have been hopeful that there was something to salvage,’ says Tamsin.
