Louise

And it's not to that point, right?

But I don't know why the fear is still there.

Right.

And I think that's why when he pulls away the affection, it feels like he's doing it in spirit.

I try to be, you know, compassionate about the fact that he is stressed about work and stuff, but at the same time, like, I can only be neglected for so long.

At times, yes.

Right.

And I, I've tried to be in, um, I recently had a conversation with him about like, um, because he told me that, that he's burnt out with work and with, um, a relationship, I guess.

Um, so I tried to, you know, tell him that like, I think you're putting an effort in areas in our marriage where, um,

I appreciate it, but it doesn't help me to feel the love the way that I prefer to.

So maybe you could switch the effort you're putting in this way in a different way so that I actually feel it more.

It impacts me more.

He was okay with that.

I've never seen Harry Potter.

I have to say I would thoroughly agree with Rebecca Ciarán.

I live in Clondalkin myself, and whilst we have some lovely areas in Clondalkin, we also have our problems here as well.

I do feel that we are putting this down to poverty.

I really don't think it's poverty.

I can see some of these families, and I would have been working in a system where some of these families would have been known to me,

where you see they can go into Tesco or done stores, they can buy their cigarettes, they can buy their slabs of drink while their children are absolutely running amok on the streets.