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Navigating Emotional Intimacy After Trauma & Injury: A Marital Crisis


Question
Hello
My mariage is in extreme jeopardy
I was a comerial diver , in December I was hurt pretty bad, since the I have been home, in the 3 year history of our relation ship this is the longest I have been home in one time.

I can pin point the begining of my wife drifting away to a date last october when she witnessed a heated argument between my 17 year old daughter and myself

My wife has an abusive past- molested at age 6 by a neighbor, agaib when she was a teenager by her step father, pregnant by a boyfriend at 17 then live in anabusive relationship with another guy for 12 years.

I was married before fore 19 years,

I have brain injuries due to decompression sickness that cause short term memory issues as well as other cognitive deficits

I have had neuro-psyche testing that shows I have mild anger issues along with depression.

My wife told me Monday that she is thinking about leaving and that she is not in love with me anymore and does not find me sexually attractive(repulsed is the word I think she used) she state that it is not fair to me for me to be stuck in such a relationship.

I asked her to go to therapy but she says she does not believe it works.

We have a beutiful 2 year old little boy and I thought a great life

We are totaly broke right now waiting on a settlement from litigation

I love my wife and want to save our marriage.
Can it be saved?

Can you help?



Mike  

Answer
Well if she was to change her mind, what would be different? I doubt she will change her mind if there is no change in her life, she has had enough and wants to try something new. So if there is a change you have in mind if she were to decide to stay, I'd say now is the time to change it, perhaps if she like s what she sees, she'll stay.

Bill