'I Think We Have A Dead Bedroom. My Wife Has A Wildly Different Take.'

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68e6c57c1500002f1c269b81.jpeg?cache=3sFcH3r3m7&ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="" data-caption="" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou via Getty Images" /></div><div class="content-list-component text"><div><div><p><strong><em>Family Beef is our family and relationship advice column at HuffPost Family. Have a beef you want us to weigh in on? <a role="link" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kRJnEfCPl5psoDLnQ6XFlnV1G1Xh71Xk7Z5k_PXsGTI/viewform?edit_requested=true" data-vars-item-name="Submit it here" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="68ae0b06e4b05fbbed5bb3cf" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kRJnEfCPl5psoDLnQ6XFlnV1G1Xh71Xk7Z5k_PXsGTI/viewform?edit_requested=true" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="0">Submit it here</a>.</em></strong></p></div></div><div><blockquote><p>Dear Family Beef,</p><p></p><p dir="ltr">My wife (43) and I (44) have been together for 11 years, married for three. We’ve always had a pretty consistent sex life, with a few slower or less active periods over the years: when our kids (6 and 9) were always sleeping in our bed, when my mother got sick, when my wife had a fracture. But they always felt like understandable circumstances where sex wasn’t the priority. I had my hand; it was fine. Outside that, we’ve stuck with once a week or more pretty consistently. </p><p><em></em></p><p dir="ltr&quot