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Hello, I have posted under relationships a number of times before, but I have to say something. I have come to the conclusion that my wife is definitely emotionally abusive. She's done a number of red-flaggy things over the years we've known each other, but it seems like now that she was...

Not long ago I would have said that they're too many choices, but I think I like Kaki King. She was originally a solo instrumental guitarist, then went on to use multiple instruments, and even have some singer/songwriter type songs. And her songs can be on the dark side which I definitely...

Hello, I am a songwriter. I don't have a way of posting the actual music but I thought I'd post some lyrics. Welcome Me Unbound My torso is a waterfall, drownin' my shirt By now I should know not to wipe my eyes with my hands covered in dirt The shadow above me conspires with everyone I...

Carrie Underwood... not that one should feel guilty for listening to her, but I do none the less.

Assuming medication doesn't count: Chicken Nuggets, and Water.

My stepdaughter is listening to a veggietales song on youtube. I also wanted to make note of a new album from a new band that I am loving. "Psychotic Symphony" by "Sons Of Apollo" If you are a progressive metal fan.

Music: Listening, playing, writing... Music

My therapist is away this week I think my job is giving me carpal tunnel syndrome I need to lay off the coffee (even though I only have 1 or 2 cups a day) I really wish my therapist wasn't away this week Wondering if I need to file for bankruptcy

Hello, I'm a songwriter/composer. I do both singer/songwriter and instrumental music. I could post some of my lyrics here. I've been really lonely lately, and I'm definitely an advocate of using art to socialize.

Hello, I am having difficulties with a new job and managing symptoms. I recently started at a call center. Some of the callers can get kind of nasty very quickly. 2 in particular really triggered me yesterday. I can be kind of quiet sometimes, and shy, and a couple callers have no patience...

Yes I have thought about divorce. Some nights at work it's all I think about... that and music. The midwife practice we're going to is seems very good, and gets great reviews. I'm all for it. I'm just worried about how my wife would react if she didn't fit the criteria anymore. Like it has...

Not to be too dramatic about it, but it feels like I'm losing my mind. I have to constantly monitor what my face looks like, because she asks me if I hate her if I'm frowning. I'm just so tired, but if I say I'm so tired I just hear how I cant be tired cause her job is more tiring, and I'm not...

I'll do my best...

I've been trying to think for a while on how to tell her that I think we should go to couples therapy. Whenever we talk about it she has this way of picking apart what I'm saying, and spinning it around. Sometimes I don't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. I'll still...

I would probably feel like I could rest. Like I could go out for a couple hours, and not feel guilty about it. Like I wouldn't feel like I was doing everything wrong all of the time. Like I could work during the day, and arrange child care like a normal person. I also might feel guilty about...

I don't know. I told myself shes been through a quite a lot of long term abuse in her life, and I didn't want to make it worse. I guess also when I wanted to leave her before I got so wound up that, in the moment, it just seemed easier. She also has times when she tells me how great I am, and...

She is 14 weeks today. I've suggested therapy as a possibility periodically over the last five years. Just before we got married I suggested we do some pre-marital counseling, trying to frame it as like a routine pre-wedding thing. She became very stand-offish saying: "Why do you think we...

Hi, I haven't posted here in a while, but a lot has been going on. My wife is pregnant, and I'm excited to be a parent, but there is a lot of stress coming with it. I'm diagnosed with ptsd. My wife has an extensive trauma history, is undiagnosed, but definetly has signs of ptsd. She doesn't...

In answer to a couple of the points raised: we have no shared assets, and I've never had legal custody of my stepdaughter, so there's no battle to be had there. The only thing we have together is that both our names are on our apartment, and there's a year left on the lease. I'm not really...

Hi everybody I haven't been on in a while but a lot has come up. My wife has been doing emotionally abusive things towards me for some time now: gaslighting, sexual coersion... I could go on, but it's becoming more and more apparent that she needs me rather than loves me. I was... not happy...

Conversations about how she feels don't go much further than my aura needs to change. Most conversations regarding how I feel mainly end up with her telling me how she has/had it worse, without much acknowledgement that she understands im having a rough time. It's like most of the time she...

And she's refused therapy on multiple occasions based on that she had negative experiences with therapy when she was a teenager, and after divorcing her previous husband, who was abusive.

She does have a trauma history too.

Hello, I have always been a quiet person, with a fairly flat affect, even when I'm not particularly depressed. When I am quiet, or flat, my wife has been telling be lately that "I have a murkey aura" and that she cant take it. She never asks me what's wrong, or she just makes a winey noise at...

Well she just got done telling me I never show any emotion, and it is like living with someone she works with. I mean I just had surgery not too long ago, and have been a tad more zombie like lateley, but we've been together since 2012, and I've never been that overtly emotional. I'm wondering...