Yeah, if a wife stops the sex, it stays stopped.
Stop and pause are different.
Forgetting to #### happens.
"What? It's been a year? Really? Wow. A year, really?"
But why would would anyone persist in doing something unenjoyable for fun, when it's clearly easier not to?
That was the problem with the olden days where sexually ignorant virgins got married supposedly forever.
Of course they had no idea how to give or receive pleasure, and neither of them had the background, or the resources to teach each other how to move their shit into 5th gear.
The past and the present are really different, I'm just not sure where to draw the line between the past and the present, but probably with drugged out key parties in the seventies.
PS
Sex is a tiny unimportant of sharing a life together.
I'd say %80 of taking a lover is that you're just sick of looking at your spouses stupid face.
Cheating is for lazy cowards too afraid to end a marriage.