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I have tried therapy multiple times with many therapists each time hoping to find the right person to work with. I have created a bit of a disdain towards the entire profession I will admit. I have never found one where I wasn’t more than a number, where as soon as my time was done my name was forgotten as soon as my file was put down, at least that was how it was feeling like to me. I am getting ready to attempt again with my husband and find myself more apprehensive about that and feeling scared that the therapist will ruin what we have been working on than hopeful that this will help us especially knowing his needs right now.
Samy HigginParticipantThe angers are about the way I grew up. The lack of any true encouragements, lack of any real affections that didn’t require my loyalty or side to something, the constant feelings of being pressured or pulled into directions I didn’t need to go in.
I’m quick to get angry, it’s even harder for me to let go of things any things. I find myself consistently second guessing myself. Nothing ever seems to be enough.Samy HigginParticipantI need to find a better way to release my pent up angers and emotions from my past. Options, objectives, exercises, something to be able to be a better person the person I want to be for myself and my family.
I fear that I may have already lost something great due to my negative ways and can’t emotionally continue this way.
Fear,doubt, and self loathing lurk far too closely in my daily life as it is and combined with the negatives it’s a bad combination.Samy HigginParticipantWe verbalize fairly well what we need from each other. Our major issues happen when follow throughs need to happen and also when pasts come back to haunt us. We both admit to being stubborn and we are readily available to talk the problems are openly seeing each others side objectively.
Samy HigginParticipantI worry about the quality of it as well. We are going through the VA which is generally less than stellar on a good day.
Aside from my children my marriage is the most positive thing I can find right now. With that being in such a precarious position it is very hard to find positives, I keep looking and trying though.Samy HigginParticipantOur son has down syndrome with autistic tendencies as well as being non-verbal and a very complex cardiac condition that has required multiple open heart surgeries.
Samy HigginParticipantMy mother is an entirely different issue. She has my husband believing she wants to “fix” what is broken between us. I’ve tried explaining that those things can not be fixed not with the mindset before us. My daughters well one is all grown up so to speak she’s just finishing college and has decided to move in with her boyfriend. She’s going to make her own choices now and I will not tell her what to do when it comes to that it would only push her away. The younger daughter already sees her grandmother for what she is and keeps her distance. I believe that just leaving would be best for us all bit until things are settled between my husband and myself there’s really no where to go. It’s a very small town and in the virtual middle of nowhere so there’s no where to get away.
We came out here because we believed that she had changed and things could be mended. Also the schools and services for our son were better than where we were as well as jobs for my husband.Samy HigginParticipantI have let my stepmother go. The main reason she was around was it was a dieing wish from my father to “take care of her” as I can only assume that he knew the boys would not do so. I guess I was trying to still live up to his expectations even after his death. I have realized I can’t do it even with his request she’s not going to look after herself and I can’t pick up his role with her.
I need to focus on fixing my anger, finding the good again and working towards a more positive life for myself and my family.Samy HigginParticipantFor our disabled son it’s positive. For our teenage daughters it’s half and half as long as they do what my mother wants it’s fine if they cross her it’s hell to pay. For my stepmother she’s around once or twice a year usually holidays or an occasional birthday. It’s not her behaviors that bother me it’s her lack of interest or involvement with my kids and myself that is more of a hurt. She was always 1000% on the boys while myself and my siblings were just an “eh your here”.
Samy HigginParticipantI live with my children and my husband. Both my mother and her husband as well as my stepmother live within 5 minutes of me.
My husband and I are going through a very rough time right now and are going to be starting marriage counseling in part for his issues and also for mine.Samy HigginParticipantBeing a wife who is going through having a depressed spouse who, after almost 10 years, decides to sit down the day after Christmas and announce “I want a divorce” and “I love you but I’m not in love with you anymore”.
I have to first offer a heartfelt and emotional hug as I know I have needed one since I have heard those words.
Secondly I don’t have the exact answer to what is or is not right with all of the advice I have seen (I have read you thread thoroughly). I firmly believe that as long as there is love there is something worth fighting for. The question is what is it your fighting. What I seem to see most in your writing is that your fighting two major things. A) is your need of assurances and reciprocation towards your actions. It’s only a personal observation and opinion (one I have to constantly remind myself of when I start feeling my doubts) but as long as you are still in love with this woman will it not be enough to be able to have the ability to share that love with her? I know it’s human nature to WANT to be loved in return and you miss the love you were receiving before.
If you really take a moment the two outcomes you have are loving her and sharing/showing her this love with her there or loving her and mourning the woman/relationship that has left your life. It’s a struggle one I have daily and it gets overwhelming sometimes but the second option is much more painful then the first.
B) Your depression… it’s perfectly understandable to have some and feel the doubts while under this kind of pressure and I commend your getting the help. I also agree a bit with Anita you need to have a balance. You can’t base your center around your wife, it’s very much the mistake I made with my husband, you have to have your own center be your own anchor so to speak.
Now I’m not negating your marriage, it’s a bond no one should enter lightly and anything short of direct physical or emotional abuses or the absence of any emotional attachment (at which time the two should have no issues dissolving amicably) marriage is hard work made much harder by the standards of humanity today.My story is a bit more complex my husband has severe anxiety,depression,and panic from military service and has had a depressive psychosis episode brought on by not taking his depression medication.
It has caused him to hallucinate and have delusions for the past 10 months. His delusions have been of me telling him I don’t want to be in the marriage anymore, that I don’t believe in us anymore. That our daughters doesn’t want him and will never accept him.
10 months of this and I have to take part of the blame as I did not know anything was going on. I was very focused on work,our teenage children,our disabled son, our home and other issues and I neglected to notice what was right in front of me. I can’t change that it has happened but I can change the things in myself to look ahead. We are going to counseling and are going to try and put the broken pieces back together. Am I depressed, yes I am. I had a wonderful life my husband before this break was attentive, kind, loving, a wonderful father and everything I could have asked for in a partner and I miss him everyday. I would be lieing, to myself and to you, if I said I wasn’t depressed in my present situation but I HAVE TO and you have to find a way to harness those doubts and negative emotions and use that energy to make a positive impact on yourself and your family’s lives. Why because you love them and you need to be healthy for them because if your not than anything you do with that energy will carry a negative effect.
I firmly believe in love and I hold hope securely in my heart. I pray the same for you. -
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