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what to do.

i am 21 years old, and my husband if 22. and we are NOT happy.

he doesn’t want to go to counseling. He never wants to do anything to help our relationship. We will have been married for a year July 21 2008, so less than a month away. He has basically given up...and wants a divorce. Should we go for the divorce, or try to work things out?

We dated in California for 2 yrs. i broke up with him, and he moved to Texas. When he visited Cali a few months later, we "fell back in love" and got back together. Dated on the phone for a few months, and when i returned to visit Him in Texas, he proposed. We continued to date on the phone, while engaged, for the rest of the year, i planned the wedding, and got married with a big beautiful wedding that my parents threw for us, I moved to Texas the day after the wedding.

 We don’t physically click, there is no chemistry. I love him so much, but like a brother or family member. Not like a lover or soul partner. he is my best friend, and my family loves him. i love his family...everything is perfect, with the exception and stress of finances, and the fact that i am not physically attracted to him..and im not sure if i ever have been. i dated him because it was convenient, and then we both got comfotable with eachother, and now we are not sure weather to stay with eachother, or seperate, or get a full on divorce.  It is to the point I don’t even want to kiss him. It is killing him, and he says that he needs to be with someone who wants to kiss him everyday…I feel that our relationship was jaded from the beginning. We basically got married to have a normal dating relationship again.. Should we stick it out? or do you think things are just going to get worse. Is there hope?


by missmanda   4 Posts   read more from user >>
Posted on 6/25/2008 2:50 PM

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beleive me you are young and have alot of time ahead of you.  I have been married for 10 years and I have 3 kids and I am in the same boat.  I love my husband, but I don't think I'm in love with him anymore.  We have our good days and bad.  You don't have kids yet, so my advise is make it a clean brake and move on.  It will only get worse (believe me I know).  You have no attraction to him already and that won't change.  I've been trying to find mine and I can't.  I was always told that the first year of marrage is the hardest.  If I was you I would just get out while you can.
by Melissar   21 Posts
Posted on 7/7/2008 12:20 AM
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Hello there~

Well i can tell you that i am in the same boat. I got married right out of high school and married my best friend, i wanted a normal life. I thought i loved him and the sex would get better but as time passed i only faked the happiness. I think that part that you have going for you is that you don't have any kids. I have one daughter and she i the only reason that i have stayed. I didn't want her to come from a broken home but i am starting to realize that this marriage is worse then a broken home. I want her to see what real true love is.. we all deserve that and so do you. I am now 24 and still dealing with the fact that its hard to let it go even if its bad. So if you ever need to talk please email me because i really know what you are going threw. I agree with the people below me there is someone out there for both of us that we are going to want to kiss and be kissed by each and every day.
We just have to get passed the loneliness and know that it will come, the hardest part is not going back to the bad just because its comfortable that is only selling yourself short :)
by razmataz321   64 Posts
Posted on 7/6/2008 1:02 AM
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Good God...  you are young and you don't have children! I don't want to hurt you, but I doubt things will get better. It's too early in the game to have issues like this, and quite frankly, there is a lot more in life to experience at your age. I agree, it sounds like you married for other reasons than a real click with him. Make yourself happy now, don't settle for anything less.
by Desmo   70 Posts
Posted on 7/3/2008 1:28 PM
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Well, it sounds like you got married because you wanted a wedding, not a husband.  Trust me, I married when I knew it was a mistake, and I did it anyway, thinking it would somehow magically get better.  It doesn't.  If you are young (and, in my opinion, you are too young, because I was too), then you both have a chance to find someone you truly are happy with, and start your lives again and move on. Whatever you do, do not have children with this man, and do not complicate or mix your financial lives any further.  Only you can decide what to do.  But can you picture being with this man when you're old and gray? Would you regret not spending your life with a real love? Only you can answer.  If you can't picture a life with him, I think you know what to do.  You have to have love first, or you'll have nothing later.  Good luck
by elane   319 Posts
Posted on 6/26/2008 3:39 AM
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Ultimately, only you can decide what to do, because it is up to the people IN the marriage to define what marriage means to them. It sounds like it means something different to each of you. Some people really don't care about a physical relationship; in fact, in some cultures marriage is strictly a financial arrangement. However, it sounds like having your physical attention is what your husband expects, and you are unable or willing to give that.   I've learned a lot about marriage, but most of that came after I no longer had one. Any two people can wear gold rings about their fingers and live in the same house, raising children, raising cain. That doesn't necessarily make them married. So if they part, that doesn't necessarily make them divorced. It only makes them honest. Marriage is not about a license or a wedding ceremony. It's not about sacrificing who you are in order to keep a promise that you were incapable of making.   I didn't really know what I was doing when I got married at 19. I knew within a year that it was a mistake, but I kept trying to fix it. I kept "trying" to be happy, "trying" to be attracted to him, "trying" to be a good wife. Fifteen years went by, children came along, and things got worse - because they were never right in the first place.   Marriage is a conscious, willful decision made out of wisdom and the wholeness of the self. Our problem as a people is not that we don't know how to stay married. It's that we don't know how to get married in the first place.     Like I said, you must take responsibility for your own choices here, but if you feel you've made a mistake by getting married, you don't have to pay for it for the rest of your life. You can make a new choice at any time. Just learn from it, and the experience will not be lost.

Peace,
Julie
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by JulieMcKown   9 Posts
Posted on 6/25/2008 6:16 PM
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Well I have been in a relationship before where I wasnt attracted to him, that same way. I loved him, but not as a sole mate but a good friend, i cared but it just wasnt there ya know? I stayed because i was lonley and need someone, but that was 3 years wasted of my life, because we both ended up with someone else, someone we both loved like no other, and who we wanted to kiss everyday!!! you will get very lonley, and you will want to have someone that you want to kiss everyday, someone that you can put your arms around and no thats where you want to be for the rest of your life, and believe me hes out there. but all this is up to you to deside. if you both arnt happy and not truely in love it will end sometime.
by babydevil1717   4 Posts
Posted on 6/25/2008 3:00 PM
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