Nightrunner

Agree with a large part of your post.

Why can't the marital sex come first and see how it affects all this other stuff that everybody is always saying affects the sex. Let's discuss.

In my case nothing ever got addressed while we were having sex on a regular basis. And the resentment of being expected to have sex when other aspects of the relationship lacked grew to the point that sex became a huge void between us. As that void became more massive sex became less frequent. Bringing about that endless circle of sex based fights that became more like a power struggle. I wanted to work on what I saw as the real problems he wanted to have sex.

Just my thoughts