For many couples, sex plays an important role in overall intimacy. That doesn’t, however, mean that each person wants sex at the same rate as their partner.

While pop culture is quick to make fun of straight couples struggling with a gap in libido (“Not now, honey,” the wife will say), the sex therapist Chris Donaghue, author of Rebel Love, tells Yahoo Life that mismatched desire can be an issue for “couples of all sexual orientations” — and that it’s not unusual at all to want more or less sex than your partner.

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“In every relationship, there will always be a higher-desire partner and a lower-desire partner for sex, just like there will be for any topic, like how often you travel and how clean you want your home,” he explains. Differences in libido, he says, “should always be expected.”

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