I need help reading between the lines. My situation feels better and likely has improved, but only slightly. We still live together. We sleep together most nights. There’s no intimacy, and or “I love yous.” She also hasn’t told me in clear language that she has changed her mind and now wants to fix our marriage. So by the strictest metric, it has not improved.

She’s not leaving, she’s not wanting me to leave, we still go out as a family with our S6. We have fun when we do. There’s little arguing. There’s mostly laughs.

Meanwhile she tells out S6 how much she loves him, tells her family that on the phone, I’m dying each time.

Does my situation sound familiar to anyone? Has anyone else posted something similar?


"I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me. When the fear has gone, there shall be nothing. Only I will remain."

Litany Against Fear, Dune