Tag: marriage

"I’ve heard from your wife—she needs your attention. She tells me she’s lonely. She feels isolated and ignored. Her life is wrapped around children, work, and/or household chores. She used to feel in love with life, and in love with you, but now she feels worthless and uninteresting."

"Our romance dies. All the time. I mean sometimes our romance doesn’t just die, it’s tortured before a slow and painful death."

"I was emotionally collapsing. I had a 2-year-old, a newborn, and no idea what would happen next."

I want to stand up and scream, “You can’t keep that promise. It’s impossible!”

"To be deeply loved by another human being is a beautiful desire embedded in every one of us...but what if it goes too far?"

"My husband and I got in an argument this morning (like most couples do) and we put each other on the silent treatment for a few hours because we weren’t at a point to receive what the other one was saying."

Sex is also usually one of the first things to enter a romantic relationship when things are going well and one of the first things to disappear when things turn south.

"The day my Mom died I called my husband...Then he began to tell me a story about my Mom. A story that I never knew about her before because she didn’t want me to know."