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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I keep coming back to your post because I know how hard it is to maintain a marriage when you have a child with special needs (I am the person who posted a couple of times above - I have the special needs teen).  I hope you don't mind if I say I have been praying for you.

You have gotten a lot of good responses!  Two things that stick out for me are

1) People grieve  differently.  To some extent this may be gender based, but as someone above points out, in her case, she was the less emotional one.  Your husband may be kind of like mine.  Mine thinks about the concrete things he can do, like go to work everyday and earn money to pay for the stuff his family needs.  But he is still grieving - our son will never be able to follow in his footsteps occupationally, etc.

2). Don't give up on your marriage yet (unless there are factors like abuse which you haven't shared).  It is hard to single parent in any case and especially hard to do so with a kid with special needs.

If you have real life friends and family you can share with (I hope you do) - do so.  I hope you have someone in real life who can listen to you sympathetically and nonjudgmentally.

Just know you are not alone.  [/quote]

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