Make your bed the centre of your marriage. It shouldn’t be a place where you only go at nighttime when you’re tired. If at all possible, go there together in the afternoon. There is nothing quite like the pleasure of being side by side under a quilt during daylight. For a chance to really talk without interruption, to cuddle without conking out, to have slow sex without a deadline.

If you have a job, take a half day.

If you’ve children, then beg or pay someone nice to mind them.

If your bed is squeaky, then buy a solid new mattress.