I don't want to end my marriage. I don't need to LTB. But I want to spend less time with DH in 2023!
We are both late 50s and last year he pretty much retired (has his own business, runs it from home) and as a result he is now around the house all the time. So, what with covid and now this, we've spent a LOT of the last 3 years together - pretty much 24 hours a day, apart from a few weekends when he visits elderly relatives.
I feel suffocated. He is mostly lovely, but drags me down and now I don't feel as relaxed at home with him around all the time.
He is traditional, structured, formal.
I am creative, a bit free-spirited and I think a more modern in my outlook.
He wants me to go to things with him, but we don't enjoy the same things, and his presence spoils it for me (e.g. if we go to the theatre he doesn't want to discuss it afterwards, but if I go with my girlfriends we will have a right old discussion about it afterwards).
I feel I need to 'consciously uncouple' a bit, but don't know what to do/ how to go about it! I read about celeb couples who live in different houses, or split their time between two different houses, and I am so jealous!
I have no family to visit. A lot of my friends have become 'our friends' and if I suggest doing something they assume it's as couples.
What can I do on my own? Where can I go?