Elise

Hi, how are you?

I'm okay.

I kind of just need help in how to talk to my husband about my postpartum struggles.

I was diagnosed with postpartum depression when I was about a month postpartum.

How long ago was that?

Well, my son just turned six months, so about five months ago.

I think I was struggling well before that, though, because I had a pretty traumatic pregnancy and delivery.

So it was all just really hard.

But when I would go to talk to my husband about it, all I would get was, I don't know what you want me to say, try some medication, so on and so forth.

And I've been struggling with trying to get him to understand the last five months.

And our marriage is really kind of at a point where either he

you know, offers some support and tries to understand, or I'm not sure where we go from here.

It is.

It's awful.

Yeah, it is.

I would say intimacy is really hard for me right now.

Like just it's overwhelming.

And for him, like that's what he wants.

That's what he needs to connect to me and like,

I don't want that right now.