4: A Cycle of Pursuing and Avoiding
Your partner feels you’re too needy so they take an emotional step back, which makes you feel worried, rejected, or abandoned, and therefore needier, which makes them take another step back, and so the cycle continues.
5: No Longer Intimate
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One cause for lack of intimacy in marriage is anger. If your husband expresses his anger disrespectfully, this will build resentment in you.
6: Sexual Problems with Spouse
Partner may feel that sex means validation or freedom or conquest, none of which are available from a spouse. if you feel essentially ugly and undesirable, your partner might not be able to make you feel attractive and desirable like a stranger can.