My 82-year-old mother-in-law told me that she once asked her mother how come she only had two children, despite being married quite young.
The answer was "Because I behaved myself'" which I always thought was a really sad answer.
Why is this answer sad? What does the old woman behaving herself have to do with her having only two children? She refused to have sexual intercourse with her husband?
Yeah, it implies less penetrative sex because it correlates with fewer children, assuming no other pregnancy protection.
We dont know the exact nature of their relationship of course, but the commenter inferred the relationship to have less sex. Not to mention that previous generations had different views on sex than today, which plays into the inference that they were unhappy with their sex life for pragmatic reasons
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u/ConsciousMaybe6930 7h ago
Not sure I understand.