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History of Feminism

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gollygee

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Tue Oct 28, 2014, 08:49 AM Oct 2014

Please read this advice column (Note: this is an HOF thread) [View all]

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/05/my_wife_is_emotionally_dead/

He's blaming his wife for his alcohol abuse and then complains that she doesn't have sex with him enough. If my husband blamed me for something like that, I don't know how much I'd want to have sex with him either. Am I reading this wrong? I read it and expected the answer to at least mention that it isn't OK to blame your wife for your alcoholism, but I didn't see that. The assumption is that her history of abuse causes her to be "emotionally dead" and that is the cause of all the problems in this relationship. I think it's possible that his alcoholism, and then his decision to blame her for it, might have caused her to emotionally check out of the relationship. I would love to hear the wife's side in this.

Read and tell me what you think of the answer in this advice column.
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