8 years, 2 DC (5 and 1) and feeling fed up with my lot. DH leaves for work 6.30am returns at 7pm (has a 2 hour commute each way, says he can't get another job). He comes home helps tidy up then switches his laptop on and spends the evening online before heading off to bed at 9pm. We currently sleep separately because of Dc waking in the night and also his diabetes which wakes him often and then wakes me too. I wouldn't mind all of that if there was even any sex or intimacy. No kissing, cuddling, foreplay, sex, nothing. When I try to talk to him he always says he is still into me and we just need to make time for it, but as you can imagine that time never comes.He also says that he thinks I am always tired so doesn't want to bother me but even if I approach him he manages to brush me off somehow.
I am only 40 and he is 49 but I feel like I am living with an old man. He is a great father and I cannot fault his generosity but good God I feel like I am dying a little every day. I have often considered leaving but when it gets to that point he says he will make changes and does, temporarily. I still love him and find him attractive but I feel like I will have to settle for a sexless marriage with very little conversation if I want to be with him. We do argue as I just get so frustrated with him and his best defense is always to withdraw and I feel like he uses this to punish me for 'nagging' him.
Am I really going to have to bite the bullet and leave? I dread having to cope with 2 children on my own but I feel sad at the prospect of a future with a man who has little interest in me. Has anybody had this experience and how did it work out?
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TantricShift · 03/10/2014 21:12
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