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trevorlawrence
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Hi All,
My wife and I have been having some marrital problems lately. She feels that I am not showing her enough effection and love. My defense was I was always making sure that the cleaning and housework was done before she arrived home from work so that she would not have to worry about it after working a long 10 hour day at work. Then I realized that I was going about it in a way that she didnt recocnize that I was showing her love in doing this. So, lately I have been trying to tell her how much I love her and want to work things out because she felt that we werent getting anywhere in our marriage and was considering leaving. We have been talking about alot of things lately and at first I felt like she was pushing me away until last night when she told me that she loved me for the first time in quite a while. That made me feel great, but, and this is big, she recieves numerous text messages on her phone and this was nothing uncommon for her but all of a sudden all of these messages were a seccret. Its not that I didnt know who the messages were coming from it was the fact that I felt she was hidding something from me. So this morining I woke up early and looked at the messages on her phone. This was unable to happen in the past because any other time I looked the inbox and outbox would be empty. Now I realized that this was wrong because I was snooping but it just didnt make any since she had never hidden anything from me before. Also I did this while she was sleeping cause I figured this was the only time to look. Anyway when I looked at the messages on the phone not to my surprise there were several messages. When I read the messages I felt deeply hurt cause it sounded to me like this person was trying to move in on my wife. So out of anger I woke her up and began to question her, which I also figured out was the wrong thing to do. Long story short we got into an argument about this and in the end I realized that everything was harmless and I had interpreted it all wrong. Now I am in quite a pickle. Just when we start to make progress I questioned my trust for my wife and before she left for work this morning she asked me how we were going to fix me questioning my trust. To my dismay I had no answer for her. Now not only is she hurt from past issues here is a nothier one that we must try to work through. The only problem is I dont know where to start.
My wife and I have been having some marrital problems lately. She feels that I am not showing her enough effection and love. My defense was I was always making sure that the cleaning and housework was done before she arrived home from work so that she would not have to worry about it after working a long 10 hour day at work. Then I realized that I was going about it in a way that she didnt recocnize that I was showing her love in doing this. So, lately I have been trying to tell her how much I love her and want to work things out because she felt that we werent getting anywhere in our marriage and was considering leaving. We have been talking about alot of things lately and at first I felt like she was pushing me away until last night when she told me that she loved me for the first time in quite a while. That made me feel great, but, and this is big, she recieves numerous text messages on her phone and this was nothing uncommon for her but all of a sudden all of these messages were a seccret. Its not that I didnt know who the messages were coming from it was the fact that I felt she was hidding something from me. So this morining I woke up early and looked at the messages on her phone. This was unable to happen in the past because any other time I looked the inbox and outbox would be empty. Now I realized that this was wrong because I was snooping but it just didnt make any since she had never hidden anything from me before. Also I did this while she was sleeping cause I figured this was the only time to look. Anyway when I looked at the messages on the phone not to my surprise there were several messages. When I read the messages I felt deeply hurt cause it sounded to me like this person was trying to move in on my wife. So out of anger I woke her up and began to question her, which I also figured out was the wrong thing to do. Long story short we got into an argument about this and in the end I realized that everything was harmless and I had interpreted it all wrong. Now I am in quite a pickle. Just when we start to make progress I questioned my trust for my wife and before she left for work this morning she asked me how we were going to fix me questioning my trust. To my dismay I had no answer for her. Now not only is she hurt from past issues here is a nothier one that we must try to work through. The only problem is I dont know where to start.