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derangedlunatech September 11th, 2019

Hi all, this will be rather long, and I apologize in advance - I don't suffer from long-term depression (at least not yet), but I've been hit by it pretty bad for the past week.

Last week my wife (we have been married for 19 years) told me that "we need to take a break." We have had problems for several years now (mostly involving money, and her lying to me about our financial state), which has resulted in some pretty nasty fights. But as we're coming out the other end of it, and we spent time talking about our problems, what we need to do to fix them, and made a committment to working together to fix us - she feels that she has lost herself in the process, and needs to find herself again. I can get that. But instead of working together to do that, she's completely cut me out. She has told me she needs space to figure herself out, and she isn't sure once she does if I/we will be what she wants. We now live as roommates. We can talk about very light topic - "How was your day" type stuff...but that's it. This morning she actually held my hand for like 30 seconds - then sent me a message saying she can't handle physical contact - it makes her feel pushed and angry and cornered.

I kind of go back and forth in my emotions. One minute I'm sad, but confident we will fix things. The next I'm wanting to curl up in a corner and cry because I'm sure we won't.

Anyway, that is just as a back story. The thing is that I am absolutely miserable. I sit at home, basically alone, thinnking about how miserable I am. How I don't want to just sit at home alone and miserable, but the thought of going out and doing anything - alone - makes me miserable. So I sit at home because it takes less effort. I guess part of the back story to this is that I work like 70+ hours per week at 2 jobs. In my day job I work from home. I'm generally home alone on the weekends (unless I'm working at night) while she is out and about doing her thing. She has people to hang with and talk to, I don't - because all of my friends (even the ones from years before we met) are now "our" friends- and the last thing I want to do is feel like I'm putting anyone in a position of taking sides.

All i seem to want to do is sleep. But my sleep is crap, and I can only spend so much time sleeping anyway. I know I should take some time, get out of the house, do something - but what? What can I do that won't just rub it in that I'm alone?

I know that I keep foocusing on "alone" in this. That is because over the years I have come to appreciate just how beautiful, fun, enjoyable things can be when you have someone to share them with. Now to me it feels like doing things alone would be like eating bland, unseasoned food.

So what do I do? i was hoping there would be some sort of support group or something in my area that maybe I could join - but I can't find anything...

I don't know how to operate like this. This isn't me. But this is the me that I am right now. And I hate every single thing about it.

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skyler8 October 18th, 2019

Hi!I'm sorry that you are in such a bad moment in life,but you know that this type of moments make you a better and stronger person?It is normal to feel alone.When you are in a long marriage/relationship our brain develops a habit...our brain develops a habbit in only 90 days..imagine what happens after years...So for a person to get rid of a habbit needs to teach the brain to develop another habbit...Like your brain always drives on a road..for ears...he drived so much on that road that he can tell you everything about it..so when you put it on another road..at first is feeling wird,what to give up because it doesn't like the new stuff but after a 70/90 days he will feel good on that road.I think that you need to tell your brain that it's ok to be alone..it can be really fun but also very good to find things about yourself and others.If your wife doesn't feel good with you make her feel good...make her fall in love with you again..find out what made her don't tell you about that money...maybe is a reason,and try to understand it and if you can't ...it will not work.Be true with yourself and when you find out what mistakes you made forgive yourself and fix it or make it better.But you need time to.Don't make up with her because you can be alone,because you will be alone also with her if you do that.Take time,discover yourself try to be friends with her .Don't push her,give her time,be the friend that always listen and is fun.Cook something for her here favorit food and don't expect to tell something to you because at first it will think that its only one time.Cook for her once a week or twice and let a letter on the table with ''It's not a romantic think is just a friend that thinks that your tired and tries to take care of you''clean or buy something that you now that she wants it real bad and when she tells you ..you be like ''IT wasn't me"and smile and get out of the room.It's sounds a little...but it still works.Make her fall in love with you make her see you also like a friend,but don't push it.A lot of times a woman likes what she can't get or what she gets real hard

humorousDay8793 October 20th, 2019

@derangedlunatech

Be Careful, it is sounding like the same manipulative trick my x-wife pulled on me and soon afterwards i found out she had been cheating behind my back for 2 full years. She ended up marrying him and taking him for everything (like she did to me too) Be very careful living with a pit viper, the poison lasts forever in the form of depression and trying to live with the ultimate betrayal. I never expected this ever to happen, but she played me like a finely tuned piano. What makes it all that much worse and hard to live with is that i never saw this coming so i couldnt save my 4 children from pain that was so great one commited suicide and one is facing 15 years in jail, and 2 are addicted to drugs and they have such bad trust issues they will not allow anybody near them.

Pray hard, open your eyes wide and do some investigating so you dont get blindsided like we all did. My prayers are with you