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How do I fix my broken marriage?

I have been with my husband for over 11 years and married for over 9 years. I found out 10 years ago that I had depression. I have lost interest in sex. How do I get my husband to understand that this is not what I choose? When we first met he lied to me right off the bat! I also got a phone bill over 300 dollars!( phone sex numbers!) I then got him a job and he started talking to a girl about us. I also knew the girl!! Then things got worse when he started working at a pizza place. He got a love note from a girl he worked with and didn't tell me. When I found out he lied to me about it. She quit that job and went to another. She started calling my home and he said it was a guy from work. After that he was working at another job and some girl was flirting with him, I honestly think he was flirting too. It just gets worse after that. He never kept a job! I already had 2 kids before I met him. 3 months after we met I got pregnant with my 3rd child! ( his first, i think??) I heard rumors that his sisters friend had his kid, but he denied it. He even denied sleeping with her! He lied to me so much I think he believed himself! I told him he should get a paternity test and if she was his, I would stand by his side if he wanted to be a father to her. But nothing ever came about that. By theway he finally came clean about sleeping with her. I told him he didn't need to lie about his past. Anyways, the most horrible thing happened when we had to live in a motel for almost a year. I was working, yes me not him!! While I was at work he was spending time with her and her 2 kids, while taking care of my 4 kids too! Oh yeah, before that he worked at wal-mart for about 2 weeks and I heard from the people I worked with which 3 of them also worked there over night, that he was spending time with another girl on lunch breaks and regular breaks! By the way, this is when we were living at the motel, so it was kinda the same time he was seeing this other girl, the worst one! Anyways back to the girl who lived in the same motel as us. I would come home after working, and sit out in the hallway with this girl not knowing she was trying to steal my husband. She lived in the same building we did. I remember when we first met her, she was at social services the same time we were because she was getting help to move there for a month. Yes, alot can happen in a short period of time! My daughter shared her banana with her little girl. I would always talk with her in the hallway. Well, one day after I got back to the cursed motel after work, my husband out of nowhere started to argue with me. About what I did not know. Anyways, he started to fight and yell at me and said he needed to get away for a while. Shortly after he left she left!! I didn't know what just happened. Soon to come he was leaving one day during the weekend followed by the other day. He said he was going to his friends house ( male) . She started calling me at work, telling me that they had sex. When I confronted him he denied it. She would tell me what he was wearing that day and what marks he had down there! I beleived her, but he still denied all of it. I was litterally sick and I couldn't function at all. My kids were suffering because of what was going on. I told her I was done with him and she could have him cause I didn'twant him anymore! When I told him that we were over he said if I didn't take him back he would take his life. I did, I gave us another chance. We finally moved out of that city and moved to our home we live in now. When we first moved here, my husband told me she was working a few minutes from where we lived. That tore my stomach up. Thank goodness she didn't last long there. I haven't seen her since then and that was over 3 years ago. Ever since I took him back we've come a long way. He still has alot of issues but he has gotten so much better. He still says to this day that he never cheated on my but I can't beleive him. I do trust him alot more now but there is still a long way to go. I forgave him but I can't get past it. I can't forget. It still seems like it was yesterday. I do know he loves me. How can I get over what has happened in our past? He still has alot of anger but he is controlling it alot better. What scares me is that we can't spend time together without fighting! I love him with all my heart and I know hw feels the same. But, I want to be able to spend time with him without fighting. He spoils me with gifts all the time but those are just material things. I want his love and his heart. I want him to be able to show me with his words and his actions not with material things. I know he loves me cause since june of 2008 I haven't been able to work because of shoulder surgery and then my car accident. He works 6 days a week just to pay our bills and car payments, but I want him to stop throwing it in my face that he works and pays all the bills. He knows how I feel, and that I can't do alot because of what happened, but it still hurts me when he says that stuff.. Most of the time he says sorry and I told him that's fine but it doesn't take away the fact that I might be able to forgive him but I will never forget what he said! I do trust him now that he won't cheat on me but I worry about our lives together. We can't even spend time together without fighting! We are both scorpios so I know that's a challenge in itself. We're both blockheaded, LOL!! We've been through so much, so much I can't even say because it would be too long to write! How do I get past the past and live for the now so we will make it in life? We both tell each other to find someone else all the time, especially because of the fact that I don't have the urge to be intimate with him. I think he deserves someone that can do that forhim. I feel that sex is always on his mind. It makes me feel that, that is the only thing important to him! I want to more intimate with him because I love him. But, he doesn't understand just how much he has hurt me in the past. He always says it's in the past so leave it there, but I just can't! I've tried everything. Meds and arousal pills but nothing works. That's why I think it's so hard for me to feel like I used to. I am tired all the time, but none of the depression meds have worked. I feel like I'm all out of choices. I've done research about hormonal imbalance and everything else. I can't seem to find a good doctor who will check everything. Please help???Cry


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"Life is a banquet and most poor [scoffers] are starving to death!"  Auntie Mame

Dimples, it would appear from your post that you are the cause of your breakup. 

You will cause more breakups until you admit your errors and correct them.  You seduced your husband through sex, then you discontinued sex, and left him with a raging libido.

It might give you a sense of supremacy to play these extremely dangerous, sexually biased games, but until you learn to maintain a relationship on the basis where you started it, you will be at fault for the unseemly result.

Sympathy seeking with a feminist "counselor" of course only sets your dysfunctional games in concrete and makes you ever more the victim of games that you set up.

Until you admit your faults, and cease your games, you will be a hopeless victim of your own misdeeds.

 
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In reading your post, I have to say that I am impressed you want to stay with this man after all he has done and the way he has treated you.

I'd have booted his butt out the door years ago.

Meanwhile, I think you should stop looking for a medical solution to your problem. I suspect the reason why you have no desire to be intimate with your husband is because you truly do not love, trust and respect him - at least right now.

I am aware of the fact that you said you love him - but you also said you don't trust him, is that not so?

Hon, all that is rolled together. If you don't trust him, you won't respect him. And if you can't trust and respect him, you won't be able to love him. At least, not in the physical sense.

If you and your husband want to make your relationship work, you are going to have to work hard at it. And I don't think it's something you'll be able to do on your own - at least, not right now.

Therefore, I want you to look into couples counseling.

A good counselor can help the two of you learn how to communicate effectively, which will help strengthen the foundation of your marriage and lead to a better relationship.

I urge you to make an appointment at your earliest convenience. And if you mention it to your husband, but he doesn't want to go - go without him.

Good luck.

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The road to nowhere is paved with good intentions.

Hi Dimples32. What a novel. Your post was actually fun to read... I want to hear all the parts you left out!  LOL!

Like you said, you're both pretty blockheaded, so of course you will argue. There will always be a challenge of the wills between you, and when you have ammo from the past, well, that only gives us back-up power incase we're ever losing a fight!  The sad part is, it becomes the only thing that keeps you bonded together, because other people won't put up with it for long.

You're right, sex, or any kind of a romantic relationship dies out. There is no closeness or loving passion anymore, the only passion is to control! And you're right in saying that (Words can't be taken back).

The only way you will ever be able to fire your love life up again and feel sexy is to give him the benifit of the doubt. Focus daily on forgiveness and understanding, letting go of what lies behind and practically reinventing yourself..   Realize that most men are cheating slobs.. if given the oppertunity, 9 out of 10 times they can't say no. They really need a good woman's Prayers! So if you must stay, protect your body, keep a sound mind, and stop fighting with him. Honestly, it takes 2 to fight. Eventually he'll look pretty rediculous yelling to himself.

I hope you heal completely.

 

 

sounds like you have problems in every area, get a good counselor and begin rebuilding your life

firgure out your mistakes learn from them and this one you might have to throw back

 
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I'd be depressed too, if I was married to a complete asshole. Just my opinion.

 
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Cool Equal justice for All

The law works but the system needs changed, We all abide by the law but sometime it failes us. The same with the goverment. God bless the USA, Brign our troops HOME safely, To the men who did not get the credit they deserve, MAY GOD WATCH OVER OUR SERVICE MEN.

I porsonally would reccomend you get the heck away from him any way you can as you cant repair something like this as it is to far gone. Then get a good counsler for your self to get over your problems. But find a divorce attorney and counsler then get the heck out and dont look back. Then find your self a good man one that will help you then stick with him. But dont get the first man that is available look around as you seem to know what life is about and dont make the same mistake again.

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Posted 2009-09-25T17:07:08Z
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I'm with Lawbug, mostly - and I'd recommend that you totally ignore DrStrangelove, whose answer was completely asinine.

Being a Scorpio has *nothing* to do with what's going on. Living with a self-centered, untrustworthy jerk is most of the problem! How dare he throw the fact that you can't work in your face, when he just didn't work for all that time - and was messing around, too! (I don't care if they ever actually had sex or not, he was unfaithful by my standards. Repeatedly.)

It's totally unsurprising that you aren't interested with sex with this guy. Intimacy is impossible with so much damage to your sense of trust. You cannot feel safe or vulnerable, so there wouldn't be anything but the physical there. And when you're depressed, your libido is affected negatively. You're likely to stay depressed as long as the big reason for it is in your life.

Think of it this way: would you want anybody treating your kids the way this guy treats you? Probably not. But you're showing them that it's okay, that they should put up with crappy behavior - or behave that way themselves! Is that what you want for them?

If not, dump the dead weight. Get a good lawyer and a good counselor. Get back on your feet somehow - apply for disability or check to see if you're eligible for vocational rehabilitation to help you qualify for some kind of work.

After you've got yourself and your kids in a better situation, after you work through why you would ever accept such terrible treatment, THEN you'll be ready for a good relationship with the kind of man you deserve.

Good luck!

Posted 2009-10-01T18:02:16Z
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