Five days of working, coming home, eating the same foods in the same atmosphere, waiting for the weekend that ends up being just like the others. After a while, the comfort that such a routine pattern provides begins to lose its luster and the couple's intimacy does, too. This reason, however, is worth mentioning because so many couples simply expect intimacy to be a part of their married life. They expect intimacy to be automatic because they are husband and wife. But it doesn't work that way.
Intimacy is something that needs to be cultivated, nurtured, and grown.
Intimacy, like anything else worth having, requires work. When couples neglect this simple fact, their intimacy plummets. You won't always have a ten out of ten on the intimacy scale. It's not meant to be at full throttle all of the time. But you can maintain a higher level of intimacy than you currently have in your marriage if you accept the fact that it doesn't happen naturally.