When Do You Officially Have A 'Dead Bedroom'?

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68ecf72f16000055ad483989.jpg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Empty bed" data-caption="Empty bed" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Quin Stevenson via Unsplash" />Empty bed</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/how-often-should-i-have-sex-couple_uk_67bd933be4b039cc8729f92f">Therapists agree</a> that there’s no such thing as a “normal” amount of sex for couples to have (though for reference, <a role="link" href="https://www.healthline.com/health/baby/how-often-do-normal-couples-have-sex#The-Average" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-vars-item-name="some researchers found" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="67bd933be4b039cc8729f92f" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="https://www.healthline.com/health/baby/how-often-do-normal-couples-have-sex#The-Average" 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">some research has found</a> that only 26% of partners “do it” once a week). </p><p>But the moderators of the Reddit forum <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadBedrooms/" aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expanded="false">r/DeadBedrooms</a> say their page is designed as a “Support group for Redditors who are in a relationship with sex ten times a year or less and one or both partners are unhappy with it”. </p><p>A “dead” bedroom is one in which sex is basically absent. Members of the online group talk of “<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadBedrooms/co