I am a dentist and own my own practice and things got really stressful. Then I went out with a couple other dentists in my practice and drank a bit too much. I came home and when my wife asked why I was home so late I don’t know what came over me. I hit her across her face, sending her onto the couch.

I felt bad immediately and I posted this yesterday and appreciated the responses. I tried to contact her today and her sister said she is considering filing divorce papers. It was isolated. I didn’t mean to do it. I don’t want to hurt her. I have never done this before. We have 2 children and their lives would be destroyed by this. I fear I could lose my business as well.

Please please suggest how to get her back and keep her from filing. She won’t even speak with me.

I am a dentist and own my own practice and things got really stressful. Then I went out with a couple other dentists in my practice and drank a bit too much. I came home and when my wife asked why I was home so late I don’t know what came over me. I hit her across her face, sending her onto the couch.

I felt bad immediately and I posted this yesterday and appreciated the responses. I tried to contact her today and her sister said she is considering filing divorce papers. It was isolated. I didn’t mean to do it. I don’t want to hurt her. I have never done this before. We have 2 children and their lives would be destroyed by this. I fear I could lose my business as well.

Please please suggest how to get her back and keep her from filing. She won’t even speak with me.

ok, im considering being a therapist when i get older. like the kind that sit on a couch and help people sort out their problems and issues. im not sure what those kind of therapists are called though. what are they called and how many years of college would that certain kind of therapist require? what EXACTLY do they do? i know i may sound a little dumb. please help though!

My husband and I got married two years ago. Six months after we got married, his mother threaten to kill herself (depression) so we have to moved from California to Florida to take care of her. The problem is my husband got a job right away but me after more than a year of searching I still cant find any employment. My mother in law never talks to me, she just sleep, eat, sit and watch tv but ignores me most of the time. My husband doesn’t want to take her to nursing home. For me in the house with a depressed person and the new environment and no employment really affected me both mentally, physically and emotionally. I feel I am falling into depression also. My self esteem is low and I feel sad all the time. I feel the only way to get back to my old self is when I start working. I was thinking of moving back to california, so I can work again. My husband is a good man but I feel right now his main priority is his mother. We live that we are more roommates than a couple. We never had sex for 6 months now because his mother sleep in the couch in front of our room. Do trial separation ever work or we will just ended up separated? Thanks

my wife and i have been married for 9 years this march we have three kids and a odd reversed rolls marriage. long story short i am a disabled stay home dad who still pays his fair share and does plenty of house work and put’s in time with the children.

i have some issues i need advise with my wife works hard 5.30 am to 3.30 pm 5 days a week. and she is always tired , she makes time for everyone outside of our family but none for me.

she hasn’t worn a wedding ring since our first child was born and now it doesn’t fit , got it resized once but still didn’t fit right . i said let’s buy a new one and here we are 7 years later still no ring i am 1000 percent positive she isn’t cheating.

our sex/romantic life is a joke serious 1 time a month no joke she always has a excuse tired , i’m a jerk , no libido , the kids are always up til her bedtime for her early rise 430 am .

granted i am a jerk, i argue about these topics alot am i just over sensitive Acting like a house wife or is their problems of course theirs problems she never wants to talk about them we watch tv in separate rooms she falls asleep on the couch often.

i feel like it’s a marraige of convenience for the children sure we have a good day here and their but it has changed alot.
she is 37 not in or entering menopause has she given up do i leave should i stay please offer advice.

My boyfriend broke his leg and he will be on crutches until the end of next month, we are planning to see Dear John, but idk exactly when. What should we do for valentines day, it’s the middle of winter and he can’t walk that much. I was thinking of getting a picnic blanket and basket of food and having a nice lunch at his house and then maybe watching a movie on the couch? I was also going to buy him a flower, kind of as a joke.

Our 8 month old Lab has terrible separation anxiety, he chews anything he can, even started ripping the skirting from a couch. he has another dog for company, plenty of chew toys etc.. We adopted him from the pound when he was 3 months old.
I do leave the tv on and he has food cubes, he gets plenty of play time and excercise. I think he gets mad because I leave. I do not want to crate him, but it might come to that. Thanks for the advice.
I know that considering medication is extreme, but I feel we are at that point with him, unless we can try something else. Thanks for your info.

We have been dating for 7 months. I only found out she was a virgin about 2 months ago. I guess deep down inside, I always knew. She wouldn’t be the way she was if she wasn’t a virgin. She says she’s waiting for marriage.

Our relationship is great. We are totally in love and I respect her, and want to continue to stay with her. I see marriage in our future (Although, I’m 22 and shes 20, and I still have a year left of school.) I feel like I’m ready for marriage, but I don’t think she’s quite there yet. I think she looks at marriage being somewhere near 2-3 years away.

She’s from a Mexico. She’s lived in the U.S. for 3 years now. And she lives with her brother, sister, and parents.

We had this thing going for a while where we would make out on the couch and dry hump like crazy. But this didn’t last long, as she decided it wasn’t right.

Thinking about no sex for 2-3 years is absolutely killing me. For all I know, we could get married in 5 years. That’s a long time with no sex. By the way, when I say no sex, I mean absolutely nothing sexual. No touching, No intimate kissing, no dry humping. I’ve already talked with her about how I feel about it and pretty much, all she says is that it’s not right to do anything sexual unless you’re married and that If I truly love her I can wait.

I do love her but she obviously doesn’t understand. We seem to be getting in the routine of fighting over many things which end up leading back to the no-sex issue. Any help?

If you decide you want marriage counseling how would you bring up the idea to your spouse?I have brought up marriage counseling in the past but he wasn’t very receptive of the idea and told me that our relationship was NOONEs business.Things got better for a little while but only because I just berried the problems deep inside me to appease him. Now that they have resurfaced I want to get them worked out before something bad happens again.I had an affair from about six months out of our seven year relationship about three years ago, because I wasn’t getting the attention that I needed from him and he was choosing to look at porn before I got home from work instead of waiting for me to get home.When the affair stopped I thought everything would be ok.I stopped having sex with him completely,I didn’t sleep in the same bed with him the last three months of the affair and I didn’t kiss him the problems are different now but the new problems bring back the old feelings of discontentment
if i wanted to end my marriage I would have asked how to file for divorce! Marriage should be worked on as long as abuse isnt involved unless it just cant be fixed.
Before you say its me why don’t you ask.

What does your husband do to make you disconent? Well he stays up late and half the time looking at porn,he doesn’t make an effort to spent time with our daughter.Conversations at home are all about his work or something related to his work and when I try to talk about something else he cuts me off with talk of work.If he doesn’t decide to talk about work when he gets home he sits on the couch and falls asleep.

My husband is a good man, he really is. However when it comes to our marriage, he has emotionally checked out. He is not meeting my emotional needs. He wont sit and "just talk", when we have sex, It’s just sex, not loving making…During sex, he will make no noise or say anyting. He will do me really Hard,(sorry TMI) and come then hop off and go take a shower. ..Today, He just walked in the door from work, I am sitting on the couch with a cold watching Tv, He goes straight to the TV and Turns on the Red Wing Game and sits down. Not even a word…Advice? (Please don’t tell me to walk in front of the TV naked, I have done that and it never works)
For the most part we have a great marriage. However my husband is an Only child and a Russian Immigrant. and was never "loved" by his mother. She also emotionally checked out of his life…No father ever.