Thanks for your replies.

I am getting used to centreing the conversation on how it makes me feel, because we have had a long relationship whereby me raising 'anything' that I am not happy about feels to him like I am 'blaming him for every problem in modern society'.

Of course at the moment there is a voice inside me that wants to scream at him and I wish I could be as assertive as you (MM) but my past experience tells me to bite my lip for a little while longer as he seems to be recovering from a recent bout of (work related) depression but I am also taking the stories on this board seriously and wondering if it will take years to get there.

I currently have a work colleague who is very seriously contemplating D after 8 years of virtually sex-free marriage. He has had several OW but the lack of intimacy in his R has driven him to this conclusion.

I don't want to go there but can't cope the way things are either.

I would love to hear about any successes you have had ... looking for inspiration to carry on.


Cheers, NelJ