WELLBEING → OFF THE COUCH Issue 777 · September 11, 2019

No X-Rays Here

“We’re fighting all the time. This just isn’t the woman I married”

No X-Rays Here

Dr. Yedidya Levy, an American radiologist living in Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood, contacted me to help him with a rough spot in his marriage.

“We’re fighting all the time. This just isn’t the woman I married,” Dr. Levy told me during our first visit.

He described what sounded like a standard story: They grew up together in Woodmere and had begun dating while he was a senior medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. They got married during his residency while she finished her degree as a physical therapist.

“We had an amazing beginning to our marriage,” he told me, “Shabbos with our parents, Yamim Tovim with my whole family at a hotel in Miami, and even though I was working all the time because of my training, her sister was in the same building so she was always busy with her family.”

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