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[quote=Anonymous]I have been unfulfilled and sad in my marriage for years (he shows zero affection or attraction for me and is increasingly being a bad roommate even).  But the things that do bring me joy - our mutual friends, my in-laws, our pets, our house and neighborhood, even my friendship with DH - would disappear if we got divorced.

We have no kids and I have no family of my own so his family IS my family.  And we've known each other forever so our lives are completely enmeshed.  And he's still my best friend, which let's be honest would not be the same if we divorced no matter how amicably.  But I'm so f*!&ing depressed (just about this one issue), which has been hashed and rehashed to no avail.

What now?  I know everyone will say counseling, but I have so little hope of that working.  This is just the way he is and always has been (I was very inexperienced when we started dating), and I've already very clearly expressed my needs, and on the rare occasions he makes an attempt, it's so hamfisted and insincere that it just depresses me more.  [/quote]

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