He wants to divorce and continue to cohabit

[tellmesomethingtrue]

Is this madness?

Joint mortgage
Two young kids

He doesn't want you to move on. That's not up to him, though.

Cohabiting would be like having the worst flatmate ever.

This could work if you were two very very nice people who had mutually decided that the marriage was over but you still really liked each other. Although in this circumstances I would be saying “are you sure you can’t make it work?”

But in reality it will just be a mess.

This made me laugh! Yes he's already a terrible housemate.

My husband suggested this. We've come to an amicable end to our marriage, no infidelity, we've just fizzled out and he doesn't want to not see our son every day. Short term whilst we sell the house we will continue living together but we have separate bedrooms.

Longterm it wouldn't work, 1 or both of us may want to start dating and under no circumstances am I having another women in the room next door. I also don't want our son to grow up thinking this is normal.

To not be living with him.