So I had one LTR for 7 years and one other LTR who is now my husband of 20 years.

In between, there was about a 1.5 year gap. In that time, I had 4 sex partners ranging from one night (though had known for a while), one month (also had known for a while), and 3-4 months (one was an old school friend and the other was someone just met). All of them I opened up to having sex with them readily, either first outing or within a week.

I have both good and bad feelings about it looking back. I had fun and they were mostly good guys who treated me well. But I did not see them more deep relationships, it was really about the confidence boost of them wanting me.