My wife is in her mid-fifties and was diagnosed with fibromyalgia two years ago. I love her dearly and do everything I can to ease the pain that now shapes her days. Medication – mainly steroids – helps but whenever she has some sense of getting her life back she seems to get a flare-up and it reminds her of how her world has shrunk.

I will always look after her but now I’m her carer, I no longer find her attractive in the same way. I feel overwhelming guilt for this.

She’s noticed that I don’t seem to flirt with her any more, and even though sex hasn’t been part of our lives for the past year (we’ve had sex three times in two years) she feels rejected .

I am active, have a fulfilling career and enjoy spending time with our family and friends. I’m ashamed that a part of me feels a

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