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They have a lot more sex in the beginning, but it gradually tapers off no matter how you play the game, and by the end of the existing content they really don't do anything but sleep — as in actually sleep — together.
From a gameplay standpoint it makes sense; early on Anne's unwilling to have sex with others, so if there's going to be sex it's obviously going to be with her husband, while later on she's constantly banging other guys and so we (the players) don't "need" redundant husband/wife sex scenes.
But like you I've always found it unsatisfying. Yes, I can understand and even encourage "hey, Dre just fucked the shit out of me and I'm sore and exhausted, can we put this off until tomorrow?" or whatever. But when that becomes not the exception but the norm, it would be quite reasonable for the husband to object to her nonstop extramarital activities getting in the way of their own sex life. The subtextual counterargument is that what's presented as a "couple's" adventure is actually about the husband's cuckolding/hotwifing fetish that gradually turns into that plus a healthy load of indifference, which is exactly why it's all about to go to hell unless he's very, very careful.
That said, there's always been an incredibly easy fix for this and one that would fit into the stat-limiting revamp, though I say this believing that it's not going to be part of the revamp. At one point (in the revamped version of the game) it's made explicitly clear that the husband's failure to make love to his wife will damage their relationship. The overt warning vanishes after a few iterations, but so do most of their husband/wife sex scenes.
Well, make them count and keep counting. You don't even have to render a new scene. Make it the same scene but skippable and award the same stat bonus/penalty. Use that to help assess — because other choices have to matter as well — whether the relationship is a loving but open or one wherein Anne no longer gives a shit what her husband wants because he obviously doesn't give a shit about what she wants.
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