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Supermarket prices (giá cả siêu thị) are soaring (tăng vọt), energy rates (giá năng lượng) are out of control (ngoài tầm kiểm soát) and landlords (chủ nhà) are hiking up rents (tăng giá thuê nhà). The future feels uncertain (tương lai bất định), but the cost of living crisis isn’t just depleting young peoples’ bank accounts: It’s ruining their sex lives. Romantic wining and dining comes at a cost, and with 93 percent of UK adults reporting an increase in their living costs between August and September 2022, singles and couples alike are struggling to maintain passion-levels.

The Student Beans Cost Of Living Report – published in October 2022 – found that 24 percent of British students reported that the crisis is negatively influencing their dating life, with 10 percent stating a detriment (gây hại, có hại) to their sex life specifically. It’s impacting our approach to financial boundaries, too, with dating app Bumble finding that 28 percent of people are now implementing stricter cost-caps on their dating lives. Elsewhere, a study conducted by Stowe Family Law finds that 55 percent of UK couples feel friction in their relationships because of the cost of living crisis: 70 percent worry that their relationship won’t survive it.

This has become the sad reality for Lucy, 23, from Warwickshire, England, who has just broken up with her boyfriend (chia tay bạn trai). As money became a topic of concern, their sex life began to plummet (rơi thẳng đứng, tụt). “Dates weren’t a priority (ưu tiên) anymore, which for me always acted like foreplay (màn dạo đầu). Towards the end, we mainly stayed in the house, didn’t get dressed up and barely made an effort as it felt pointless. I felt a lot less sexy,” she says. “It became very [routine-based] and we were still having sex, but it wasn’t as exciting or varied. Our sex life was depleting, and that really affected my self-confidence (tự tin).”

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