Hope Kept My Resentment Alive

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5 min readOct 7, 2022

To finally get past my built up bitterness and resentment, I had to give up all hope.

After several years of marriage with almost no sex, I couldn’t stop myself from growing bitter and resentful. The one and only need that I couldn’t meet outside of marriage was indefinitely withheld from me not because I had done anything wrong, but because she just wasn’t interested and nothing I could do would ever change her mind. The life I had dreamed of and saved myself for, full of love and romance and reciprocated passion, was never going to happen. I was hurt, confused, and angry and I…

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Just a lonely married guy who was gullible enough to fall for all the religious brainwashing of my youth and ended up stuck in a sexless marriage.