Tag: marriage

"When he outstretched his open hand on the table, our eyes met."

"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.