When it comes to our personal lives, why do Americans say one thing and do another?

Particularly when it comes to the most intimate centers of our lives – marriage and children.

In some remarkable research into personal lives by the Pew Research Center earlier this year, people displayed a tolerance for others that goes far beyond the latitude they allow themselves.

And it’s not just a reaction to…

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Dr Andy Attwood says that 17 per cent of married people live in a “sexless marriage”, which means that they have sex 10 times a year, or less .

And that, he says, is far from being a ‘huge and monstrous marriage buster’.

Dr Attwood has spent his professional life helping couples through marriage-busting stresses, and he says that sexless marriage is ‘truly normal stuff for a couple to be dealing with’.

Writing in his book Hopeful Solutions for Your Sexless Marriage, he says that he treats ‘the struggle you are having with your sexless marriage as a challenge facing both you and your partner’.

“Everyone struggles with…