Welcome to Sleep Diaries: Naked Edition. You're already familiar with our Sleep Diaries, where interesting people share a week's worth of late-night habits in hopes of helping you get a better night's rest. In this special eight-part series, we're tapping folks all over the country to share the tea about their sex lives. Why? Because when it comes to other people's bedrooms, that's what we all wonder about the most. (Admit it!) You'll pick up some tips to use in your own sex life and, more important, you'll see that there is no such thing as normal when it comes to the ways we share space in our most intimate moments. This week, we talk to Mitch, a 40-year-old married dad of two living in Pennsylvania.

My wife and I have been married for 12 years, but for seven of those years we were best described as the "walking divorced." Our relationship was built on our great sexual chemistry, but when she started experiencing pain during sex three years in and we were forced to abstain—our longest stretch was eight months—it became clear that we lacked the communication skills it takes to protect a marriage.

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