Cancer may be wrecking my marriage

13»

Comments

  • Ejobb001
    Ejobb001 Member Posts: 3
    edited May 2020 #42
    My situation

    I am the husband. My wife has been going through the cancer battle for a year now stage 3 curvical. I was holding up well for a while mentally, but have always had depression issues. I had an episode just a few days ago and ended up making a mistake by going onto a married dating website. I completely flaked and anyone that has battled depression where the episodes are very dramatic can tell you that you end up doing things way out of character. I have never been unfaithful and still have not been intimate with anyone other than my wife.

    During the past few months my wife did not embrace me at all. She would shy away from me if I tried to get close. I feel terrible. She found out about It a few days after she was going over my internet history, which was actually rather complicated so she must have had a reason or had been doing it periodically anyway.....but now she will not talk to me. I messed up,  but I had a crazy amount of stress trying to take care of my 3 kids and her for the past year. My job had threatened to terminate my position because of all the time I had to be off, me and my spouse hadn't been intimate in over a year, and I had been sleeping on the couch for a year. I am lost because she now wants me out of the house and is telling me I can't see my kids. And the only real thing I needed was to be closer to her in  this really difficult time. Any words of wisdom would be great because I am really struggling mentally, and emotionally as I still very much care for her.

  • Ejobb001
    Ejobb001 Member Posts: 3
    edited May 2020 #43
    kaykow said:

    My husband is in remission. 

    My husband is in remission.  He treats me like a servant.  He shows me no love. He doesn't treat me like a spouse.  I've talked to him & it does no good. This is killing our marriage

    I'm in the same boat sort of.

    I had a very similar experience with my wife who was battling. I did very well taking care of her but I couldn't get any attention from her at all and she would turn away from me if I tried to get close. I feel terrible because I acted out by going to a married affair website in which she found out after she finally came to me and got close again. Now she absolutely hates me......I did not cheat and wanted to close my account with that website after coming out of my depressive episode.