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How to Reconnect When You Feel Like Roommates: 8 Ways to Rebuild Intimacy in Marriage As a partner in a marriage or long-term relationship, is there anything more painful than looking across the couch at your partner and realizing they feel more like a friend and roommate, than your soulmate or lover? You still share a home. You still pay bills together. You may even raise children together. On the outside, everything looks fine. You may even go out and about and people see you as a perfect couple or perfectly happy little family. But inside? Behind closed doors? The conversations are brief, if existent at all. The affection has faded. You might even flinch at your partner's touch because it is so unfamiliar. Date nights have disappeared. Maybe you each eat leftovers on your own, in front of the tv or while scrolling on your phone. Sex feels rare—or nonexistent. And when it does happen, it's more like wham, bam, thank you, ma'am, instead of som...
