The article reflects on a 45-year marriage marked by infidelity and emotional detachment. Initially, the husband was a high-functioning alcoholic engaging in affairs with unhappily married women. After being confronted about a two-year affair, he quit drinking, but his sobriety led to emotional withdrawal and the end of intimacy. The marriage became transactional, heavily influenced by the couple's responsibility toward their children with medical needs. Despite thousands of AA meetings and therapy sessions, the husband remains emotionally distant, leading to lingering questions about his changed demeanor post-sobriety.
My always polite and very-high-functioning drunk husband was fucking around for the first fifteen years of our marriage.
Our marriage became completely transactional: I was management, he was labor.
Why did sobriety turn him into a monk? He either doesn't know or won't say.
To make your marriage bearable, VOM, you came up with an explanation: your husband was who he was.
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