Cassandra Syndrome Recovery

  There is a kind of grief many wives carry in silence. It is the grief of being married, yet feeling profoundly alone. You may sleep beside someone every night and still feel untouched emotionally. You may pour love into the marriage and feel little coming back. You may explain your needs again and again, only to be met with confusion, defensiveness, distraction, logic, shutdown, or distance. And after enough years of this, something painful can begin to happen inside you. You start wondering if you are invisible. You begin asking yourself questions no wife should have to carry alone: “Why does the man I love seem unreachable?” “Why do I feel lonely in my own marriage?” “Why do my needs seem like a burden?” “Why do I keep trying so hard and feeling so empty?” “Am I asking for too much… or too little?” If you relate to this, you may be carrying what many describe as Cassandra syndrome —the emotional pain that can develop when a neurotypical wife repeatedly experiences chr...