My Husband Isn’t Happy with Me Anymore. And He Doesn’t Even Try to Deny It

By: Leslie Cane: It’s pretty painful when you can feel that your husband is no longer happy with you. But it can feel even worse when your husband very plainly tells you so himself. His putting it so plainly makes it feel permanent and unyielding. You can begin to wonder if you even stand a […]

My Husband Doesn’t Love Me Anymore, and it Hurts

By: Leslie Cane: I remember the day that the crushing realization hit me that my husband didn’t love me in the way that he should anymore. It wasn’t after a horrible fight. Nothing dramatic happened. It was just the nothingness of it. The indifference. There was an undeniable shift in the air. And I could […]

Should You Let Go of Your Husband after Separating? If So, How?

By: Leslie Cane: I sometimes hear from wives who feel as if they’re having to fight against their every inclination during their marital separation. They’re reluctantly separated because that’s what their husband wants.  And therefore, they feel pressure to begin to “let go.” But, deep in their hearts, letting go is absolutely the last thing […]

Every Time I’m With My Separated Husband, He Looks at Me Like I’m Doing Something Wrong.

By: Leslie Cane: There’s no question that you can feel as if you are walking on eggshells during your separation. You don’t want to do or say anything that may be interpreted incorrectly. You don’t want to do anything that is going to make this worse. So you may feel very self-conscious. And that may […]

Can You Save Your Marriage When You Feel Hopeless

By: Leslie Cane: “Hopeless” is a word that I hear a lot from frustrated spouses whose marriages are undoubtedly in trouble. In these situations, there is typically a separation or break either happening to the marriage or on the horizon. Sometimes, the other spouse has even asked for a divorce. And even as the invested […]

Do Women Sometimes Act Like Men When They Want Out of Their Marriages? Can Wives Act Like Husbands?

By: Leslie Cane: Most of the time, my perception is that the readers of this blog are women. Although I have no way of knowing the gender of someone when they visit this site, I do notice that many of the people who reach out to me with a question or comment are women. That […]