Separate Roads That Reunite

TO ME, SEX had become something grotesque. Without the Al-Anon program, the dying embers of our marriage could never have been rekindled. Feeling unloved as a woman and rejected as a person during the active stages of my husband's alcoholism, I had frozen and turned off my emotions, thus reinforcing my husband's terrible feelings of guilt and inadequacy, symptoms of his illness. I did wonder what had happened to the loving and warm relationship we had experienced. Neither my husband, Mark, nor I had any knowledge about the disease of alcoholism. We did not realize that sexual dysfunction can be one of the symptoms, nor that alcohol is a depressant drug.