'so your idea is to live as roommates for the next 5-10 years?'
As an exercise, how could you "agree" with her that you do not want that? I can think of two or three phrases (and behaviors) that I would have used.
Originally Posted by Terapin
The quarterly sex
Sounds like this is unacceptable to you. Now is the time for you work on changes to your behavior. During my marriage, I was pretty ignorant of how different a woman's "turn ons" were. I spent lots of time doing research.
Obviously you are getting angry, which is totally fine. The key is to channel all of the raw energy from that anger into other things so that when you are interacting with W, you are fully in control of your emotions.
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