Bitter, depressed, betrayed, anxious, and fearful, feeling unloved and unlovable – all these and more are the province of the wife whose husband has sex addiction and refuses help for it. That is, it’s this way for most women. Some may feel nothing at all, having lost or deadened their emotions as a way of coping.
By Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S
Looking away as tears trickled from her vibrant blue eyes, Miriam discussed a recent fight with her spouse Joe.
Yesterday International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged with a criminal sexual act and attempted rape. Today Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted to fathering a child with a housekeeper/maid during the course of his marriage with Maria Shriver – causing their separation.
By Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S
Jason is troubled. Despite a solid year of dating Ellen, the kind of woman all his friends call "a keeper", he is having doubts about whether or not he wants to remain together. While nothing specifically bad has gone wrong happened, he is worried that they are growing apart. "When we first met it was magic, we couldn’t get enough of each other in every way, our sex-life was intense and frequent. Now it’s like we are bored with each other and my interests – sexual and otherwise – are wandering toward others. Does this mean that Ellen may not be the right girl after all? How do I figure this out?"
