Imagine the scene: Your bedroom is illuminated with the smoldering glow of a hundred scented candles, you have soft music playing in the background, the champagne is chilling, and you’ve covered the bed in rose petals and teensy-weensy heart shaped chocolates (OK, cut the chocolates, they may get messy unless you eat them first!)
Feeling luxuriously languid in your silk negligee, you lounge against the bedroom door, caressing the door jamb like it’s a small fluffy puppy. A gentle intake of breath… Yes, you’ve attracted his attention and he turns slowly to eye you from top to toe. “Could you turn the music down, love? I can’t hear the game.”
Now if this was your honeymoon, I’d be checking out the pre-nup by now. But thankfully (or hopefully, whichever is the case) this scenario may well be what you’ll come to expect down the track if you don’t keep your own on the ball (so to speak!)
Because unfortunately gals, unless you are one of the infinitesimal number of lucky women who finds herself with a really-truly romantic kinda guy, it’s up to us to keep the spice in the hot pot we call...