Do you know how in a marriage relationship sex can become boring and routine? It is natural for gender to change over time. However, you can still have a satisfying sex life even after years of marriage. Here are five signs that you’ve lost the zest in your sex life.

1. Sex has become another chore

This can be especially true for women. With the hustle and bustle of jobs, kids, and household chores, it can be easy for sex to become just another chore. Then the sex has lost its spark.

2. You stop hugging and kissing outside the bedroom.

What happens outside the bedroom will affect what happens inside the bedroom. If you have a lot of physical contact outside of sex, chances are your relationship has lost some of its spark.

3. You do the same thing every time you have sex.

Having been married a while, you know what “buttons” to push to get an answer. It becomes easy to stop being creative with sex and just do the same thing over and over again. If you do this, the sex eventually loses some of its spark.

4. You have stopped thinking about how to please each other

An important part of sex is pleasing our partner. When you stop thinking of ways to please your partner, sex has probably lost some of its spark.

5. You put off sex until late at night, and then you’re too tired to even think about it.

Let’s face it, life gets busy. It’s hard to do everything in 24 hours. Most of the time, you probably wait until bedtime to have sex. By then, you may be too tired to even think about sex. This tends to be more true for women than for men. If you always wait until you’re exhausted to have sex, then sex has lost some of its spark.

Getting your sizzle back

It takes work to keep the sex sizzling. Remember that sex is only one part of a passionate marriage relationship. If the rest of your marriage is not passionate, it will affect your sexual relationship.