Counseling/therapy

Allison

Ladies, i need some advice. I am married to a wonderful man who has had a lot of pain and issues in his life. His parents were both addicts and alcoholics throughout his childhood. His mother died of a drug overdose right before I met him in 2006, and his father died of complications related to HIV last year (sharing needles). He now has no parents at the age of 46. To complicate things, his adult daughter (now 22) has not been speaking to him since Christmas because her boyfriend (probably soon to be fiancé) doesn't like my husband. His daughters mother is fighting stage 4 breast cancer and also doesn't speak to either of us and she and my husband's daughter live together about 4 hours away.

So, a lot, huh? On my part, i have no baggage/issues but we have been trying to get pregnant for awhile now without success. My husband has taken antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication during brief, short periods when things would get especially hard, but never regularly. He doesn't open up to me very much snd insists he is coping just fine, but i think he should see someone/talk to someone about what he has gone/is going through. Every time i bring it up he says no. His reasoning (other than saying he's fine) is that if something is locked deep in there, he doesn't want a therapist dragging it out snd thinks it will do more harm than good.

I disagree. Is there anything else i can do? I cant MAKE him go, snd i want it to be his own decision without me cajoling him into it. Sometimes he will come around to things in his own time but i don't want to push it. Advice?