feel like giving up - talk to me!

[TrentC]

Slapping someone in the face hard enough that it hurts -- in fact, slapping them in the face at all if it's not very clearly in mutual play -- is abuse, plain and simple. If that's what's going on in your marriage, you have bigger problems than being ignored, and you have my sympathies. I imagine it would be very easy to despise such a person.

Agreed. That's a whole other kettle of fish.

That said, we don't know what you don't divulge until you divulge it. So you might wanna dial back on the sarcastic 'tude.

Exactly. You want good advice, provide good information. We're not mind-readers.