Help - Please

I hope I don't offend anyone with this thread, but I would really like some help.

My wife and I have an autistic teenager and it is fair to say life has not been easy, however the last couple of years have been very testing. My wife has never had a high libido since the kids were born, but it has come to the pont where we have only had sex 1  or 2 times in the last 2 years. I am a good hard working christian man, who although far from perfect, does try to do all I can to provide. I love my wife dearly but we have such a lack of physical connection I can feel it slipping away. If I try to suggest help, councilling she goes mad and accuses me of being selfish, so it is basically off limits. I know my wife is hormonal and depressed, and tired all the time like many others in our situation. If this is normal behaviour I would accept that and just hope the spark comes back, however I would like to know what other folk out there experiences are in situations like ours. It is really starting to cripple me emotionally, and I do not know what to do. Even with the slightest suggestion of intimacy is rebuffed with an implication I am only after one thing. My wife says she loves me, and I am sure she does, but this is so hard and I cannot see a way forward.

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  • Thanks to all those who have given me constructive advice. Like us all, autism has touched my family in quite a profound way for many years, and as a normal human, at times my journey has made me question many aspects about being human, and yes - that also includes the S-word......

    As I said at the start of my post, I hope this does not offend anyone.

    Thanks again.

    H

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  • Thanks to all those who have given me constructive advice. Like us all, autism has touched my family in quite a profound way for many years, and as a normal human, at times my journey has made me question many aspects about being human, and yes - that also includes the S-word......

    As I said at the start of my post, I hope this does not offend anyone.

    Thanks again.

    H

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