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Is your secret habit causing your marriage to slip through your fingers?
-By Em & Lo
-Photograph by Massimo Gammacurta
Colin and Mia had been together two years when they hit their first dry spell. "We hadn’t had sex in a few weeks, and one night before bed she asked me how I was dealing with it," says Colin (not his real name), a 38-year-old vice president at a Web start-up in Boston. "I told her I was masturbating," he says. "She asked me where and how." So Colin took a deep breath and told her: at the office, once a week or so, to Internet porn.
Mia (not her real name) freaked out. "She was fuming mad," Colin says. "She couldn’t handle me leaving her out—it made her feel insecure." Mia adds, "Just imagining him there in his office on his own, it seemed like the ultimate act of desperation, something you’d only do if you didn’t have a partner."
