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I Need Some Relationship Advice

My wife no longer believes in marriage and wants us to be 'best friends'. We have been togeather for 14 years and married for 9 of them. At first she termed it as wanting an open marriage, which I don't want, and then later explained that she wants her independence, and to be on her own (neither of us have ever lived alone, we went from living with family to living with each other.)

We were planning to move across country (NJ currently) and she still wants me to move along with her...but get a separate appartment someplace nearby.

I don't feel like I can be just her friend. I am still in love with my wife. I want to spend my life with her and grow old with her. That has never changed since the day I proposed. If I go with her, I feel like I will grow to resent her.

I feel like every positive thing in my life has been taken from me, and I did nothing wrong.
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CountScrofula · 41-45, M
Your wife is really taking a coward's way out with this. If she doesn't want to be married with you any more, she can just say it.

If you're happy being in a 'close friends' situation with her, then go along, but if you still want to be married, and she's gonna be living a separate life dating other guys then just break it off and find someone who is good for you because this is manipulative bullshit on her part.