I Want to Be Loved

Good morning - Drinking my coffee, so bear with me ;). Like the gentleman below, I'm 18 years in but I'm with you on feeling like you do. I took the love language test with my wife and that was an eye opener for sure. There are 5 different characteristics in the love languages and these are things that you personally need/yearn to feel loved. This is subconscious and conscious. I don't now them all off the cuff, but you can Google it. The irony here after I had been married for 15 years is I found that my number one is physical touch (doesn't mean sex either) and her last out of five is physical touch. For her to come by and touch my shoulder, give me a kiss as she walks by, or just grab my ass and say "you're hot today" is not something that she thinks of and it would have to be a deliberate thing. Where as I'm doing that all the time. Her number one is acts of service and that's my last one. Just interesting after all these years. You guys should at least check that out...

Sad to hear , but seems to be a growing trend unfortunately , know your pain and can only hope things pick up for you in some way.

This whole love thing..., it's at best, complicated, at worst, a bag full of unfulfilled expectations. I think, and I say think because I'm certainly no expert, that one simply never knows where that initial rush of feelings will end up. It's unfortunately, a crap shoot. The best any of us can do is find someone who is honest, kind, and who meets, at least initially, our physical and emotional needs, wants and expectations. Then, time will tell.

Having to settle is sad, and who needs to be sad.

Wow that sounds like my story 18 years but finally we parted ways

Same here Dreamy and all we can do is be as happy as we can be.

I'm sorry about that...I hope you'll get your wish :)

I'm assuming you've tried talking to him and he's still not making the efforts to give you what you need ?? Can't grasp what's missing for you ??

Sorry to hear you are going through this.

Sorry for what you're going through.