He coos sweet nothings in a high-pitched baby voice and spews drivel like “Does my honey-baby want a kissy-wissy here?”

TELL HIM!: Fiona*, 38, a marketing communications manager, says: “Alan* used to do this

during sex and it made me cringe – definitely not a good thing. The next time he did it, I laughed and told him to please stop the baby talk because it was distracting. I didn’t talk down

to him or use a blaming tone – I just stated the truth, softened with some humour.” IT WORKED! Fiona says: “My husband seemed a little embarrassed, but he was not upset and ended up laughing right along with me. The humour definitely helped – I’m sure if I’d used

the words ‘annoyed’ or ‘ irritated’, he would have taken it personally.”