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Disillusioned

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I am so disillusioned over all that has happened as of late. I am tired of helping so many others without getting anything in return. I have worked at the same place for over 22 years and work my butt off and get nowhere. My wife keeps making excuses for not being intimate and with our 22 year anniersary coming up she still doesnt know what to get me. Her gift has already been bought and paid for! I am so tired of being the rock and the one everyone turns to for help and strength and when I need it everyone disappears. If it were not for my daughter then I wouldn't even bother keeping up this cherade. I am intelligent, responsible, and totally tired of being alone.

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Posted Mar 13th, 2009 at 7:44PM
Have you tried to talk to your wife about your feelings? Sounds like you feel like you are just exiting,I know that feeling.I am no longer with my husband.I felt resentful towards him most of the time.no sex no intimacy,no sharing ,laughing and doing anything together.If she still loves you I would try and sit down with her and ask her to do one thing nice for you a day and you for her.Then maybe try and go do things together,maybe it is you both have drifted apart but I feel if the love is still there all is not lost.Communicate.
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Posted Mar 13th, 2009 at 7:49PM
Well, hi there! I live in your universe. Everyone thinks I'm so strong that it doesn't occur to them to give me any support.
I live with two children. My 22 year old daughter, and my 50 year old husband.
Very tired of it.
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Posted Mar 13th, 2009 at 7:53PM
Then decide to leave ?
     
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Posted Mar 13th, 2009 at 11:00PM
I was speaking to friendofpromise Not to Anachronym as she sounds like she has had enough
     
Posted Mar 13th, 2009 at 11:21PM
Never knew there were women who enjoyed rape,but in this day and age with all the disillusion going on it is no surprise.What you people are speaking of is rape.
     
Posted Mar 13th, 2009 at 11:23PM
Disillusioned

Ignore the noise (that would be everyone but Shelda).. guess it is a Friday night and they've come to see the train wreck of relationships, gawkers that is all. And don't be put off too soon, most everyone here (aside from your posters) are experiencing the same pain of being neglected in a marriage over a long period of time. Read around, you’ll understand.

Okay, that said, I am sorry to find you here, understand how without the fulfillment of intimacy, touch, love in a marriage it is hard to gain the replenishment needed to deal with the onslaught of demands. It is not the demands, per se, it is that our capacity to deal with them is diminished when there isn't a loving, physical relationship in the marriage (to which we promised ourselves).

I don’t have any solutions, but can empathize.

Best to you!
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Posted Mar 13th, 2009 at 11:31PM
For me it is the best thing I ever did when I threw my husband out and in no time. I found I was more hurt and lonelier when he lived here. The anger is leaving , and found I am smiling needlessly now too.Heard this saying today "Life is an occasion Rise to it" makes great sense :) Make it a new motto.
     
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