My husband is a workaholic and I am fed up with being married to him. He is a sexual anorexic. He uses the excuse that he will do something in the slow season. He does nothing in his off time but watch t.v. He has no interaction with family. I cannot get this man to show any respect for me. The children follow his example. He talks while driving and I asked him to stop but he will not. I offer to drive and he says no. Anything I ask him not to do, he does it anyway. This man has financially bankrupt us and raped me of all my personal finances including my own owned home. He is a christian but does nothing to work on the marriage. He will not go to councelling and I begged for intimacy for so long that I finally gave up asking. I am considering leaving him after the last 2 children leave home and our finances are caught up. That will be in 4 more years. I have spent 21 years with him and shows no affection whatsoever. In the begining he pretended to show it but now he doesn't bother. I feel like I am going crazy because I am so angry with this obtuse abuse. Please do not offer me advice, nothing has ever helped. He needs to want to change. I ask for prayer and a miracle to help him change. I have done all the work so far and now it is his turn to make a difference.

Father, I pray for healing in this guest's life that the anger with which she is burdened may be removed. I pray that this long suffering wife may draw closer to you who are the source of her strength. I pray that she develops a peaceful and calm spirit with which to draw her husband to you and therefore to her. I pray that you open this husband's eyes to the pain that he has caused. I pray that you would bring him to the point of your obedience as a man and leader of this woman and home. I ask that you would take away that which causes him to take this wife and this home for granted and replace it with Agape love that will lead to restored Eros love. I pray in full belief in your power to do so...and in full faith that you will. In Jesus name...Amen!

Father God, Adoring1 has a way with her prayers and I pray this for the wife who has posted. Father God, all to often people within a marriage are lonely and neglected. I pray that you work through the power of the Holy Spirit to open the eyes of this husband. I pray that he be challenged to take up his rightful place in the family and to step up. Father God, OPEN his eyes, open his heart, open his whole being and may apathy flee from him.

I pray for this wife to seek you for YOU love her and you know her anger and frustration. I pray that in her anger that she not sin, although I so know the anger she feels. Father I ask that you grant her peace, patience and encouragment as she has come in faith to you asking for help. I pray that you bless her home and her children and that as she seeks YOU that you allow her to shine in the world and in the lives of others. I ask this in the name of Christ. AMEN.