Love by Numbers ; Does the Seven-Year Itch Really Exist? How Many Mistresses Ever Get Their Man? And How Often Do Other People Have Sex? In Valentine's Week, a Leading Doctors Reveals the Tantalising Secrets Of... [Scot Region]

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HOW MUCH sex should you be having? How likely is a married man to leave his wife for his mistress? Is there really such a thing as the seven-year itch? And why do you always end up having a row when he lets you drive?

According to doctor, agony aunt and publishing director of the British Medical Journal, Dr Luisa Dillner, there are scientific answers to all of these quandaries.

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Love by Numbers ; Does the Seven-Year Itch Really Exist? How Many Mistresses Ever Get Their Man? And How Often Do Other People Have Sex? In Valentine's Week, a Leading Doctors Reveals the Tantalising Secrets Of... [Scot Region]

In her new book Love By Numbers, she gives the statistically proven answers to questions about sex, dating, marriage and cheating.

'When I was a single parent with two children, I used to wonder if I'd ever meet someone new,' she says. 'It seemed unlikely, even without taking into account how useless I then was at relationships. Then I came across a newspaper report that said 70 per cent of single parents were likely to find a partner within five years. I was so surprised by this statistic that I tore it out. It had never occurred to me that there would be a statistical answer to the questio...

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