Failed IVF treatment and depression have knocked my wife’s libido
DEAR DEIDRE: WITH every bone in my body I love my wife, but there is no intimacy between us. I’d be lucky to get a snog from her.
She has lost her libido since being put on antidepressants over a year ago.
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She tells me she loves me but that is as far as it goes. I desperately want us to get back on track.
I feel we still have a lot of love for one another.
DEIDRE SAYS: IVF treatment will have been tough on your wife emotionally and psychologically.
Sex for her means all kinds of painful things – failure, longing and hopelessness – and she may need counselling to move forward.
Tell her you feel you are both missing out on a lot of intimacy and want to get close again.
Depression can knock libido, but my support pack Reviving A Woman’s Sex Drive will help.
Meanwhile a good start is kissing, cuddling and caressing each other, with no pressure to have intercourse at first