"Cuddling" smacks of "settling" to me. It is a fine thing within a healthy marital (read sexual) relationship. When it is used as sex-lite in a sex-starved marriage. It seems to cement the power-politics of the relationship.
SpinFree
Bullseye!
DITTO! Very good.
Gardener
"My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own." Cyrano deBergerac