Yep! I've been with my husband for over 30 years and as deeply as we love each other and as well as we communicate and know each other, there's always places where we have to keep cultivating that vulnerability and making clear what we want and need. We joke that our main issue is that we can read each other's minds 75% of the time, which means the other 25% where we can't and assume we can creates friction at times. Talking it through and keeping it real means we're still wildly in love and still having real intimacy of all sorts. It's work but it's so worth it.