Dear Broken Man:

The fact that you felt uncomfortable bringing up your problems to your parents, as a child and onward, is an indication that you were somehow made uncomfortable bringing your problems to them. And then you met HER. The Problem with a capital big, red, flashing P, Problem.

Not comfortable bringing her up to your parents, or anyone. Trained to not reach out to counsel, resigned to handle problems on your own, you figured you will handle this one on your own as well.

Which brings me to my suggestion early on in your thread: you need SOMEONE’s help, a person to help you.

anita