Welcome to Sleep Diaries: Naked Edition. This week, we talk to MJ, a 38-year-old mom of three living in Georgia.

As a divorced mom of three—I have an 11-year-old and 6-year-old twins—sex is often the last thing on my mind. It’s just so hard to relax when my mind is running through the list of things I need to accomplish each day. But being with my boyfriend of three years has taught me the value of carving out downtime—and pushed me to rethink what it means to be intimate.

Thursday: Date Night

I was having a seemingly endless work week, and stress was threatening to take me out. So I told my boyfriend, JC, that I needed a nice date night.

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