Marriage takes a toll on your sex life, reveals a survey conducted by a website offering extramarital dating. The survey found that one third of married people no longer fancy their partner as much as they did in the early days, with 43 per cent claiming their loved one has let themselves go.
Researchers found before walking down the aisle, couples can expect to have sex more than four times a week.
But after three years of life as man and wife most couples are lucky to have sex just once every seven days.
It also emerged six out of ten couples believe marriage has completely ruined the excitement of having sex.
Astonishingly, just under half of all married people say their relationship with their partner is more like friends than lovers.
Extra-marital dating service www.lovinglinks.co.uk conducted the poll of 3,000 married people.
"Unfortunately, while you can be deeply in love with someone and want to spend the rest of your life with them, it is also possible to want more from the relationship," the Daily Mail quoted a spokesman of the service as saying.
"A partner might be supportive, funny, intelligent, and kind, but if they don't inspire confidence in the bedroom, or don't meet expectations sexually life can be frustrating.