My marriage is a failure but my wife won’t address our issues

DEAR DEIDRE: My marriage is a failure but I carry on pretending everything is fine because my wife simply refuses to talk about any issues.

I’m 59 and she’s 57. We’ve been married for 35 years. It was a shotgun wedding because she got pregnant and our parents pressured us to marry before our daughter was born.

She is a strong woman and she’s alluded to having been badly hurt in her two relationships before me.

Still she won’t go into any detail and it’s made her so angry and bitter.