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Boudoir boredom: How to bring back the love
Has your bedroom become more of a playroom for your children than for you? Up the romance factor with these helpful hints.
By Lara Ceroni
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We all remember those times: Spending the morning, if not day, with your significant other, lounging in the bedroom. The phone would go unanswered, take-out was on order and the T.V. (a non-threatening object then), remained silent. Wednesday workdays would feel like Sunday lazy days ... Ah, the simple luxury of the boudoir.
But now times have changed. The place where you sleep is exactly that. Utility reigns over romance. Case in point? In lieu of soft lighting is a trusted halogen lamp for the laptop. Your once soft, silk sheets are now practical cotton flannels in case the children have a nightmare. And sex? Well that'll just have to wait until the next "date night" arrives ... whenever that is.
If this sounds all too familiar, it's time to 'fess up! ELLE online can help. We've enlisted the expertise of Rebecca Rosenblat, a Toronto-based certified relationship and sexuality therapist to give us -- and you -- her top solutions to bring back that lovin' feeling.
Always keep your bedroom neat enough so your mother can visit, yet naughty enough so she wouldn't want to.
"The atmosphere in the room should make it clear that "we're having sex." Yes, that means lingerie lain out on a freshly made bed, candles on the night tables, perhaps a suggestive silk scarf tied to the headboard or bed posts. My husband and I always lay out the naughty wear we want to see each other in which suggests the theme du jour!"
Re-experience the thrill of a new romance -- Prepare everything as if you were going to make love for the first time.
"No mess! Loads of scented candles, flowers, sexy pillows, soft lighting, incense. Anything to make a feast for the senses!"
Feel sexy even if you don't think you look it.
"Cover your lamp shades with red scarves. It creates a soft focus, not to mention subliminally igniting passion. There's no way to make your body look perfect, stretch marks, cellulite and all."
More love tips on the next page!
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