Good post, corri. Framing things differently helps me understand problems better.
I actually told my W once that I would love her forever, but that I couldn't say whether I would/could stay married to her forever. She didn't like that. Maybe I needed to frame it more like you did, but I still suspect that she would see the "I'll love you forever, but I won't stay in a sexless marriage forever" as a cop-out, or mere semantics. But, of course, her view of a situation/problem/statement is something over which I have no control.
