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‘My relationship anxiety nearly ended our marriage’ – Sydney Morning Herald
We’re sold a message that our partner is supposed to make us feel alive and rescue us from pain. When we don’t have that, we think there must be something wrong.
Jimmy resented me for not holding it together while he worked, and I was angry at him for failing to understand how hard it was.
It took three-and-a-half years of therapy for the couple to work through this. At one stage, for three long months, the therapy conversations were the only time Cat and Jimmy actually spoke to one another. We knew everything we said outside of counselling would end in a fight, says Cat.
But, over time, they worked through it. It took us a long time to realise there w…
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