Hi,
I am having trouble accepting that my marriage is over although it has been a year since my wife told me that she doesn't love me anymore. I am wondering if there should be any hope left.
We are both in our early 40s and the background is that the past few years have been extremely tough, with 4 kids during COVID lockdown and living in a place that I did not want to live. I personally lost all confidence, began having anxiety attacks and I believe became emotionally abusive although I did not see it and if I had, I would have stopped immediately as I certainly did not want to hurt my wife who I love very much.
The pressure for both of us during these few years was incredible including the death of parents and relatives, illness, uncertainty with employment, and we had no relief, our tempers frayed and we pulled away from each other instead of working together. This is not at all how our relationship worked before or how we treated each other before.
I think she has put all of her unhappiness on my shoulders, and although I am responsible for a lot, I think most of this has nothing to do with me.
Now I cannot say to her that the problems were temporary without being controlling, I cannot point out that our relationship was great without being accused of gaslighting, I just don't know where to go from here but my gut tells me that this is something that we could have overcome together.
At this point she looks at me with hatred, distrust, disgust. I don't understand how it got to this point.
Is there any point in me trying to salvage our relationship after the divorce is finalised?