Gone is the era where the couple used to focus too much on sexual activities as one of the ways to keep them together.
Another old theory we have been growing up with it is that a happy couple is one that spends all their free time together.
The society might be seeing love wrongly. Spending your time together is not a super dose for your happy relationship at all, couples need space, time away from your partner, time to focus on other things besides dating and relationships.
Experts say having your space, freedom and privacy is more important than good sexual activities.
Psychologist Terri Orbuch conducted research on 373 married couples, among them, 46 per cent had separated with their partners.
When asked the main reasons why they had parted ways, 29 per cent of the separated couples listed lack of space and privacy as the main reason why they had walked out.
"Couples need space in a relationship so they don't suffocate each other. Having time apart is extremely healthy and keeps freshness in their relationship. It encourages each person to maintain their own sense of identity while still being a couple, and it fosters independence and strength rather than neediness and clinginess." Psychologist John Aiken echoed Terri's sentiments.
You should, therefore, stop thinking that the space your lover is creating is meant to separate you, it is actually for the good progress of your relationship, thus a need to support her or him.