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I Live In a Sexless Marriage

Wearing The Inside Out...

By: ThreeDecadesAlone
Written on November 19th, 2012
Age: 46-50 , Male
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  • Blueyedme

    Thank you for these lyrics. Love this story & I do love Pink Floyd. I actually enjoy all your stories. Its interesting and so enlightening to know that there are so many people in the same situation. Imagine if we all were able to meet... Wow! Just wanted to say thanks for sharing... It helps more than you know.

    Dec 19, 2012
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  • bluebird716

    I have been in a marriage for 30 years - miserable, I might add. I have stayed believing I was doing what was best for everyone else. Not disrupting the lives of my children, etc. Now that my children are grown I realize the only thing I disrupted and sacrificed was my own life and happiness. I pray you are not making that same mistake.

    Nov 20, 2012
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    • ThreeDecadesAlone

      Thank you!! I have an exit plan. Just two more years. Meanwhile I am opening myself to a friend with benefits. So I shall be keeping my eyes and ears a little more open in my day :)

      Nov 20, 2012
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    • bluebird716

      Good for you! :)

      Nov 20, 2012
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  • NearlyBroken

    Dude, let me know when you're ready to get really angry. I just digitized my old Dylan LP called "Blood On the Tracks."

    Nov 20, 2012
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  • bazzar

    Crank that bit of technology up, and enter "Divorce Lawyers - (Your locality)"
    Pick one.
    Ring the number.

    Tread your own path.

    Nov 20, 2012
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    • ThreeDecadesAlone

      Thats the same kind of advice I would pop off with to someone else!! Well played my friend!

      Nov 20, 2012
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  • hl42

    Thanks, music's been important to me at some emotional times. In the depths of the Bad-Old-Days, I had the words of the Beatles song (I know...) swirling unbidden round my head: "Some day, you'll look, to see I'm gone, for tomorrow may rain so I'll follow the sun".

    It was helpful - emotionally - to get me to a place where I could act.

    PS - to be slightly irritating, I find your comment "now I have my trust iPad" a pretty fitting statement for the recent fad in these type of gizmos. I do not want one as a production/creative device, it's a consumption device.

    Nov 20, 2012
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  • sistah44

    Oh my god...so much pain... I'm so sorry.

    Nov 19, 2012
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  • LaoTzu

    Mate, I hope you realize that you stay of your own free will, its your choice and your responsibility. You do this with full knowledge of the pain it entails. You know the score which your own personal recurrent groundhog day brings and your spouse has not compelled you to live like this. She made a decision unilaterally for herself and you have made one for yourself. Whether you learn to accept it or continue to struggle, it makes not one iota of difference to your spouse.

    Nov 19, 2012
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    • ThreeDecadesAlone

      Oh I am fully aware of my situation. I have set a time line for myself. I am not going to throw the drama into my college kids' lives and make a move now. But it's coming. I just share to show others like me that they are not alone.

      Nov 19, 2012
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    • LaoTzu

      Ah, the exit plan.. Be well.

      Nov 19, 2012
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  • MorningBreeze

    hmmm great!

    Nov 19, 2012
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