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‘I feel inadequate as a father’ – Dr Louise answers your burning questions

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Dr Louise answers some of your burning questions (Photo: Getty Images/Gallo Images)
Dr Louise answers some of your burning questions (Photo: Getty Images/Gallo Images)

I’ve come to hate my husband and am considering telling him I want a divorce. I can’t stand the way he’s always trying to do everything I want and trying to appease me. I would rather have him be firmer with me and more manly.

I’ve tested him many times – when he wants to do something I deliberately oppose him and then in the end I always get my way. I see this as incredibly weak. It makes him come across as inadequate and over time I’ve lost my respect for him.

As usual he wants to go out of his way to make me happy and has booked a romantic boat cruise for us. But I can’t stomach the idea of spending 10 days on a boat with him in a small cabin and having to try to be nice to him when I in fact hate it when he touches me. What should I do?

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