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two steps back So, after all the positive things that happened last night, I feel like I really lost it with my wife tonight. The cumulative stresses of what my wife told me, combined with a severely strained relationship with my mother currently produced a vulnerable and irrational series of...

Reveal The talk: Last night, after taking a few days to basically write down every single concern and feeling I have about opening our marriage (2 pages, typed), both positive and negative, I asked my wife to sit down and talk. Because I knew she has been feeling guilty for all the heartache...

Galagirl, you have given me a lot to think about and talk about. One thing you said that seems to be a mistake I am making is sacrificing my own happiness to give her a greater measure of it, which I have no doubt is foolish and unsustainable. I need to accept where I am and talk about where...

After I wrote down some of my crippling fears on paper, I started to feel better about things. I plan to lay everything I'm feeling out to my wife and create a dialogue. That said, I know there are certainly pitfalls involved here, since my wife and I are in different places. I would welcome...

PorcupineTree, I appreciate the post. My wife and I have a pretty open line of communication. We've made it 12 years and it wasn't because everything was always a bed of roses. The process I decided to follow is: 1. Chronicling all my feelings (negative and postive). 2. Finding...

Let me start by saying that I am here to educate myself and hopefully gain an understanding of what my wife is interested in and why she is. I am a 33 year old male and have been married to my high school sweetheart for 12 years. Early this year (2012), she approached me and told me that she...