She has always had confrontation issues according to her family. Her parents are divorced. We never fought, maybe because I was also afraid to upset her because I knew even a raised voice would make her feel bad. She just avoids confrontation with everyone, not just me. She had a falling out with her friends and I had to beg her to go have a heart to heart talk with them to figure it out. In the end they actually just made it worse by being generally mean to her and not having an adult conversation and admitting their flaws. It is a serious problem that I didn't think was so bad until recently.

My anxiety only started in the past 4 or 5 years and it didn't really get bad until theblast couple of years. You know the story, things got real, married, job going well and pressure to keep doing better, house, bills... Real life. That's when things got bad, but I am dealing with that, I am not hiding anymore and I finally realize that I can't solve all the worlds problems on my own. Problem is the person who I want to lean on isn't there anymore.


Me - 32
Wife - 31
No kids
Married - 3
Together - 6
"I need space" - July 2012
Bomb/Presence of OM - August 2012
Separation - September 2012