Can a couple survive a relationship without having sex?

If the couple is married and there aren't any health issues or trust issues as a result of infidelity, I'm uncertain as to why they aren't having sex.

Sex, under the right conditions, is perfectly healthy and a great way to express one's affection for their significant other.

If the couple is not married, and both are considered healthy and dating one another exclusively, it really depends on why they are not having sex. Typically a person will not have sex for religious/moral purposes and has made a vow to not have sex until they have exchanged vows. Some women also have a duration rule, which means no sex until "x" number of days, as that helps to weed out the guys who are only around for sex anyhow.

Whatever the reason, a relationship can survive it if it's for the right reasons. And if it doesn't survive because of those reasons, then it wasn't meant to survive (this taking into consideration that the reasons to not have sex aren't insane of course). Hope this helps!

I'd say you definitely could survive. But why?

Yes, because a relationship is about consideration and love for the person you care about. Love is a feeling based on your heart and how you feel, not about physical needs or desires. Love is very different from sex and I tend to think sometimes the line gets blurred, and people get confused with the two.

As long as each partner is OK with the other getting some on the side.

Anyone can survive any number of unpleasantries, but that doesn't mean they are healthy or happy.

Having an active, enjoyable sex life enhance the relationship on so many levels. Sex releases endorphins which are critical to emotional levity and joy. When you are close sexually, it naturally leads to being close as friends and to having greater levels of mutual respect.

Partnership, whether married or not, should never be just about "survival. " It should be about passion, love, lust, respect, desire, and friendship. For me, without regular, mind-blowing sex, the other areas of the relationship would suffer.

I would survive, but not happily.

A relationship without sex is called a friendship. If two people agreed to be in a relationship then sex is a critical factor so eliminating sex in a relationship is like eliminating the flour when baking a cake. From my experience I would say that a relationship without sex is doomed for failure unless the two have decided to just be friends.

Besides no sex means a greater chance that both parties will seek sexual satisfaction somewhere else.

Definately. If your at a place where thats something that you have both had enough of, or have become more of a loving lifetime friendship, then yes. Sex is important, but only if that is something that is important to one or both of you.

Well, it depends on the circumstances. If you're married and perfectly capable of having sex -yet you're not having sex- then there might be something wrong.

If the people involved are both relatively young and healthy, NO... I don't think a platonic marriage could be considered a 'couples' relationship, per se... more a relationship of convenience or a symbiotic one.

They could, but sex is so important that I would hope they would find it in themselves to have sex. It's not only important to keep intimacy between the people involved, it's good for our own health. Cancer risk goes up without sex, women age faster without sex, it just makes sense to celebrate the most special thing that a couple can share with each other that they don't share with anyone else.

No, Sex helps in connecting emotionally stronger and make a couple more closer.

Every other married couple do! Seriously though, depends on why they are not having sex and if they are both ok with it. Speaking for myself, I don't think I could go without.

Words are used to express what the heart feels while action demonstrates what the heart wants and sex is that action or act that demonstrate what the heart wants and feels...

I tried dating a virgin for four years without sex, and she got it else where because love and words where not enough to prove my love for her so sex is a must in any relationship because it creates a bond that nothing else can create- HEART CONNECTIVITY.

Yes and no. Yes, if you just hate having sex with each other. If not then it seems impossible.

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