Myself and my DP (not married as neither of us wanted to be) have a 5 year old son and we have a joint mortgage also.
However, I don’t really think we’ll be together once our DS is in his late teens, possibly before. But we don’t argue/have a bad atmosphere in the house. We literally just do the day to day tasks, go to work, take our son to clubs, parties and days out at the weekends. We all eat together. We still sleep in the same bed and have sex maybe once or twice a month, at the most.
But I just don’t think we are well matched. We are basically doing what you shouldn’t do and staying together for the child’s sake. But we’re not at each other’s throats all the time or anything like that.
We have very different interests and ways of looking at life, situations. But we respect each other and both support one another as best we can although it can be hard because our communication is sometimes not totally aligned.
Financially we also couldn’t cope being apart and living separately.
Just wondering if anyone else is in the same or similar boat as this?