Women who are unhappily married, what is preventing you from walking away?

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  3. Overall I am happy, he just has lower libido than me. I get urges to be single. I don’t act on them because I don’t want to pay alimony and he is the handy one between the two of us. At least he is guaranteed sex even if it isn’t as much as I would like.

  8. My utter unwillingness to concede defeat and give up on ten years of relationship even though it’s on life-support and has been for some time. We’ve even split up and ended up back together again.

    It’s a kind of stasis caused by the equal pull of insurmountable problems and the persistent glimmer of hope to overcome them for the sake of a deep but complicated love.

  13. Lots of things. I hate failing at anything, so I keep at it thinking we will make it through. Been going to counseling for a few months now at my suggestion. To be honest it hasn’t helped me any in wanting to stay together. I still feel torn as when we first started counseling.

    We also have youngish kids and to me the stability of living in one home rather having to transfer between homes seems to be the better option.

    Also, I don’t hate him. He’s someone I have shared my life with the past 20 years and it’s “comfortable.” I consider him more of a close family member/ friend than a spouse.

    Getting divorced would change the dynamic ten fold as he’s stated that he wouldn’t want to remain friends and we would only communicate when absolutely necessary.

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