Why Does My Separated Husband All But Refuse to Communicate With Me? Here are Some Possible Reasons

By: Leslie Cane: Many separated wives are very focused on communication. Many of them realize that they’ll need to eventually improve their communication to save their marriages. So they may reach out often or aggressively try to talk to or text their spouse. Unfortunately, they’re often rebuffed, and they do not understand why. One of […]

Tips for Making Your Husband Love You Again When You’re Facing a Separation or Divorce 

By: Leslie Cane: Many wives intuitively know when they are facing separation or divorce. They can deeply sense that their husband is no longer happy, invested, or participating in the marriage. Many of them are desperately looking for ways to restore intimacy, closeness, and affection, but they wonder if any of these goals are possible.  […]

Tips for When You Feel Like You’re Marital Separation is Going All Wrong

By: Leslie Cane: I wish I could tell you that most people have a seamless marital separation where they begin communicating more effectively and conclude that they want to stay together after all. I wish that were true. But it isn’t. Instead, many people have messy separations. They have the kind of separation where they’re […]

Would Some Time Apart or a Separation Make Him Love Me Again? What is the Best Way to Do This?

By: Leslie Cane: Many wives are looking for any successful way to save their marriage or make their husband love them again. Many have tried counseling, talking things out, or spicing things up. But seemingly, very little of these things have worked well enough. So, many wives explore the idea of a separation or at […]

Why Do Men Having a Midlife Crisis Blame Their Marriage for Their Unhappiness?

By: Leslie Cane: I wish I could say that midlife crises were rare occurrences, but they aren’t. Studies show that as many as 20% of adults will have this sort of crisis in their lives. It would be bad enough if the crisis only affected the person having it, but this isn’t the case. The crisis […]

Fixing A Loveless Marriage: Is It Possible? How Can You Do It?

By: Leslie Cane: Many people wonder about loveless, broken marriages. They want to know to survive them, how to be happy in them, or how to live in harmony within one, especially for the sake of children. Very interestingly, there aren’t quite as many requests for advice on how to fix them. It seems that […]

What it Really Means When a Husband Says He’s “Trying” To Love His Wife

By: Leslie Cane: The other day, I received an email from a friend who wrote: “my husband told me that he’s not in love with me anymore.  He didn’t say it in a mean or spiteful way.  He was just being honest.  He said that he’s ‘trying’ to hang in there and regain the spark, […]

I’m Not Sure If My Husband Ever Really Loved Me And He Doesn’t Love Me Now

by: Leslie Cane: Many of the wives who read my articles feel sure that their husbands don’t love them. Occasionally, I hear from someone who tells me that their husband has never loved them. An example is the wife who was beside herself and very upset about the way that her husband has been treating […]

What Questions To Ask Your Husband If He Wants To Separate

By: Leslie Cane: Needless to say, wives of husbands who want to separate typically have a lot of questions that they want answered. But, they intuitively realize that this is a delicate situation and they aren’t quite sure which questions to ask and how to ask them. I often hear comments like “Should I ask […]

Tips For When Your Husband Is Thinking About A Divorce

by: Leslie Cane:  It can be an awful feeling when you know your husband is thinking about a divorce, and it feels like there isn’t much you can do about it. A wife in this situation might say: “My husband admitted to me last night that he’s been thinking about a divorce a lot lately. […]