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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  • I have to repeat my fears over someone discussing their private sex life in their very first post. I did not read where Autism was the discussion, but someones libido, sexual moments, etc.....

    Like I said those with Autism are often naive and easy to take advantage of, I am looking out for them.

    If Henry is innocent then he would add more to the community, and post more about Autism.

    I have a good sixth sense.

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  • I have to repeat my fears over someone discussing their private sex life in their very first post. I did not read where Autism was the discussion, but someones libido, sexual moments, etc.....

    Like I said those with Autism are often naive and easy to take advantage of, I am looking out for them.

    If Henry is innocent then he would add more to the community, and post more about Autism.

    I have a good sixth sense.

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