Recent content by Fred Blinsmon

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    My wife loves me, but has never been in love with me

    Well I do very much acknowledge that there is definitely an emotional component of love with things like infatuation (being "smitten") and things like that. However the way I've always understood it that that there are different "types" of love for lack of a better word. Like we love our...
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    My wife loves me, but has never been in love with me

    I'm very grateful for all of you who have left advice or insight. I often get to the point where my depression is so deep that it becomes impossible to think of things I haven't already tried. I'm no saint and I know my wife isn't either, but she's put up with and been through a lot because of...
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    My wife loves me, but has never been in love with me

    We did seek out marriage counseling two years ago. He eventually cut us off telling us that we had to many individual issues for marriage counseling to work. Her therapist recently told her that she didn't need weekly sessions anymore. Whereas me I'm more depressed than ever.
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    My wife loves me, but has never been in love with me

    I've been married now for almost 19 years. Me and my wife were both pretty young when we got married at only 21 years old. Our marriage has been through some serious ups and downs over the years. I'll admit that the downs are largely my fault as I've not always been the type of man I wanted to...