I’m a woman in my early 40s and have been married for 10 years, and we have one daughter, who is seven.

I hope this doesn’t sound trivial, but our little dog – who we adore almost as much as our daughter – sleeps on our bed every night and it’s ­stopping us from being close and intimate. Basically, we have zero sex life!

Initially, we crate trained her, so she used to sleep in her own bed in the kitchen, but after my husband and daughter had Covid one time and were isolating away from me, I let the dog sleep on our bed and she’s never gone back downstairs!

We love this dog so much and treat her like a baby, so have made a rod for our own backs. We have tried putting her........

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