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- From: noraa@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (aaron.l.hoffmeyer)
- Newsgroups: soc.women
- Subject: Re: Cold Marriage
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.044352.1887@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 04:43:52 GMT
- References: <By21JL.MA2@NeoSoft.com> <1992Nov21.230236.2634@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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- In article <1992Nov21.230236.2634@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu> xenon@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:
- >In article <By21JL.MA2@NeoSoft.com>, martink@NeoSoft.com (Martin Koistinen) writes:
- ><sad, horrible stuff about how his wife is turning cold, deleted>
- >
- >> I love her very much. I want our relationship to work. I
- >> want us to have a happy, successful marriage. I vowed to her
- >> that I'd never leave her and never cheat on her.
- >
- >Sounds to me like she has a fear of intimacy, and the more you try to get close
- >to her, the worse she is going to get. Most people want their relationships to
- >work, but there is no way you can make it work unilaterally. Insist that she
- >go with you to counseling. If she refuses, then you had better just leave,
- >because if you don't she is going to make your life a living hell. It may seem
- >cold to say it, but what she is doing to you is emotional abuse, and as long as
- >you make excuses for her and try to accomodate it, the problem will only get
- >worse.
- >
- >- xenon
-
- What Xenon said. Been there.
-
- Aaron L. Hoffmeyer
- TR@CBNEA.ATT.COM
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