loneliness

Without the backup of friends and family, our brains become alert to threat, especially the potential danger posed by strangers.
Feeling lonely is tough, and it's linked with some scary health risks. But there are things you can do about it.
I feel bad for marital communication, because it gets blamed for everything. For generations, in survey after survey, couples have rated marital communication as the number one problem in marriage. It's not.
When your partner consistently avoids sex and intimacy, or on the rare occasion when they are willing, are obviously doing so reluctantly -- the accumulations of repeated rejections are likely to have a big impact on your self-esteem.
Sometimes I just want to have a long conversation with someone other than my husband. Someone with female anatomy. Someone in the same life stage as me. Someone who gets me.