Cancer is Ruining My Marriage

Dr. Laura Call of the Day

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Emily has survived cervical cancer, but can her marriage survive cancer's effect on her sex drive? Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Emily, welcome to the program. Thank you. Thank you. What can I help you with?
0:21.9	I am a year out from, I'm in remission from cervical cancer.
0:29.6	My husband and I had been married for 23 years and probably five, maybe seven years ago, we kind of hit like our kids are older now and we can really enjoy life, the two of us and not get babysitters.
0:47.3	And our sex life was amazing.
0:52.3	And now, post-cancer, my body went through a lot of things.
0:58.4	But I'm just like, stay away from me.
1:01.7	I don't want to go on date nights.
1:03.7	I don't want to be hugged.
1:04.7	I don't want to be pissed.
1:06.7	And so...
1:08.0	So, in other words, you don't want to be married.
1:15.2	I do.
1:15.8	Because if you eliminate...
1:16.8	Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, if you eliminate all those things and you don't want to be married,
1:21.6	and you ought to let them go.
1:25.0	Okay.
1:30.9	So I suggest that you really don't mean that.
1:42.5	You're just having gone through a lot of pain, a lot of fear, fear of rejection, fear of not feeling feminine, all that stuff, which is normal.
1:47.9	But if your solution is to turn away from love,
1:55.3	from affection, from intimacy, then you might as well leave. If that's your solution.
2:00.9	Like, it's not my, I just don't know what to do. I don't know.
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