Feel like I’m alone in the world sometimes. I keep seeing ads and videos and things for wives whose husbands are emotionally unavailable or checked out or whatever. But I’m the husband and she is the checked out one or unavailable one. What is there for people like me or situations like mine? Is our situation so abnormal that no one cares? So atypical that there is no help for me or for us? Is anything out there targeted towards me and mine or am I just screwed? Am I alone in this shit?
I’m willing to bet your situation is more common than you or anyone else realizes in society, simply because we haven’t been trained to recognize it as a problem. I would talk to your wife about it and ask if she’s willing to engage in some couples’ counseling. If she’s not, that’s a pretty good sign your marriage might best end.
100 percent. My first wife checked out, didn’t want therapy, and we parted ways. It stung at first but if that didn’t happen I would have never met the amazing wife I have today, who is very much emotionally available.