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Hi Dr. Laura. I'm so excited to talk to you. Thank you. I am 54 and I've been married 25 years

and we have become so distant and I'm just trying to figure out how to reconnect.

Oh, you know how to reconnect. You don't want to be bothered. You know how to reconnect.

Don't be silly. Why do I have such a hard time being vulnerable and just...

You didn't have a hard time when you were dating him and wanted him to love you, want to,

and marry you and be sexually attracted to you or anything else. You had no trouble then.

You're right. So you always have known how to do it. You shut it off. I don't know. You were

pissed, tired, annoyed. You lost the concept of what a commitment was. You don't understand what

love is. Love is not a feeling you have when you wake up in the morning. It's something you create

with your actions, your behavior, your spirit. And when we just stop doing all of that and lead

our independent lives, that's it. It's over. So whatever you did to make him want you,

you know how to do that. You don't want to give him the satisfaction.

And to throw away a perfectly good man.

I don't know. We neither want to divorce. We're just trying to figure out how to reconnect.

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