It Took Me Years to Finally Feel Like I Was Hot. Then I Met My Wife, and It’s Only Been Downhill Since.
How to Do It It Took Me Years to Finally Feel Like I Was Hot. Then I Met My Wife, and It’s Only Been Downhill Since. Advice by Jessica Stoya July 28, 20261:26 PM Photo illustration by Slate.
- ▪How to Do It It Took Me Years to Finally Feel Like I Was Hot.
- ▪Then I Met My Wife, and It’s Only Been Downhill Since.
- ▪Advice by Jessica Stoya July 28, 20261:26 PM Photo illustration by Slate.
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| Original publisher | Slate Magazine |
| Canonical URL | https://slate.com/advice/2026/07/sex-advice-attraction-wife-confidence.html?via=rss |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:26:09 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-28T17:28:42.389Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-28T17:28:42.389Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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How to Do It It Took Me Years to Finally Feel Like I Was Hot. Then I Met My Wife, and It’s Only Been Downhill Since. There’s more to this story. Advice by Jessica Stoya July 28, 20261:26 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by eggeeggjiew/Getty Images Plus. Copy Link Share Share Comment Gift Story Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Copy Link Share Share Comment Gift Story Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here.
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