tara,
thankyou for your suggestions. my wife is 46, we were married this past may and there has yet to be a honeymoon.
we have an appointment today with a pastor who is trained in marriage counseling. i have no idea what to expect from this, but you are spot on when you say that my telling her only aggrivates.
i am beginning to worry about her mental healtha as well as her physical. hysteria seems to come at the drop of a hat. she is very inconsistant in her "points of view" and seems to have no sense of how she effects our situation. nor does she accept blame for anything.
i am trying very hard to accept that she has a problem and am walking on eggshells. but there seems to be no way to get through to her. so i hope the pastor can catch on to her inconsistancies.