When Jerry Turner visited his wife Teresa Nist in New Jersey, he slept on the couch.
Once Jerry and Teresa got married, she showed no signs of wanting to be together as a couple in any fantasy suite. When he visited her in New Jersey a week after taking his vows, he admitted that he felt “like an intruder in her home, like I didn’t belong.”
The feeling was even greater when she asked him to sleep on the couch since she had a busy day in the morning. “The words that came out of my mouth were, ‘Yeah, no problem,'” he elaborated, “but I was like, ‘Why? We’re married!'”
Teresa recalled a different moment in Dear Shandy, saying that although they did share space on the first night, it was the first time in a while that she slept next to someone, so she slept through the whole night. “He said, ‘Oh, you can sleep on the couch if you want,'” she recalled. “He asked to sleep on the couch. I didn’t ask him to sleep on the couch.”
Either way, he ended up on the couch for three nights and was forced to drive back to Indiana a day early. Jerry said, “Once again, this woman was a very different Teresa than the woman I met in Costa Rica. Her attitude toward intimacy at the resort was pleasant, even positive. When we returned to the States, she ignored opportunities for intimacy.”
