[Update] My (32F) husband (36M) doesn’t like being physically touched by me.
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My original post got a bit overwhelming, so I’m reading through the comments and I think I’m ready to post an update. Here it goes. <br><br>First off, thank you to everyone who commented and offered advice. I read through nearly all the comments, even if I didn’t respond to each comment. I appreciate all your advice and wisdom. I thought about every suggestion I read and it’s helped me so much. I want to start off by saying that I did talk to my husband. I told him everything people said, all the advice, and he became irritable and defensive. He said he didn’t want to be touched, and that there’s a reason he can’t be touched and that he was a sexual abuse victim. He also said that he didn’t want therapy or counseling but it was my job to “fix” him. I asked him if he was sure and he said yes, so I dropped it. <br><br>After that, I figured that I had no say on how he was or what he wanted so I just let it go and I stopped initiating any form of physical contact with him. I tried to just let him be left alone. <br><br>My husband had been working on a big project for months, so he has been working 7 days a week for about 6 months. This last week, he finished the project, and he took a 2 hour break from work to eat dinner with me. I was so excited to talk to him, to see how he’s doing, how he’s holding up, and to just have some time with him. So I asked him if he had any time to talk to me tonight and he told me “No, I don’t have any time. Just leave me alone”. <br><br>That hurt, and it’s been hurting me all night. I’m not sure what to do, but I need to talk to him and I need advice on what to say. I feel like he doesn’t even want to be alive with me right now. <br><br>I just want to know how I should approach this. <br><br>**TL;DR;** My husband doesn’t want me to touch him, so I stopped. When I initiated contact with him, he told me to leave him alone.
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