My husband wants to work on our dead bedroom but I feel like I'm drowning every time he brings it up because I want it too but my body just won't cooperate anymore. We love each other but we're stuck in this cycle where his hope makes me feel more broken and my withdrawal makes him feel more rejected.
More people experience this than they realize.
Love and longing are present but expressed in ways that inadvertently wound each other, creating a painful feedback loop of hope and despair.
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