When as a couple you've not had intimate
relations for an extended period and have become anxious and/ or the mood between you is tense on account of the lack of intimacy, with the feeling that the
relationship is heading down a negative path; and then you finally have initmacy and both feel much better for it, restoring the good feelings between you that there were previously in the
relationship, a bit like a 'factory reset' for an adversely performing digital device.