My marriage looks great from the outside – but all I want is to leave (via IrishTimesLife)
I dream of nothing other than getting out of this marriage. I can’t imagine growing old with him or spending time alone with him when the kids aren’t around. I dread it. He wants the marriage to continue and I don’t. Why do I have to keep working and communicating and trying? I feel like there’s so little relationship advice out there about how to get out of marriages that aren’t working .
No one else knows or understands you or your needs better than you do. And yet you keep deferring to others – your husband; counsellors; books; articles; me, an advice columnist you’ve never met. You don’t need us to tell you what you want, need, or should do. You know with every fibre of your being what you need, want and should do. It’s the truth that you’ve tried hard to silence, but it keeps ringing through your mind and body, every day. You want to leave. You need to leave.
Ireland’s relationship with divorce is still in its infancy, really. It’s still overly difficult to complete and not spoken about enough, and so we don’t hear enough stories of people just like you, who decided to leave marriages that were, on the surface, fine, because they knew it wasn’t right.
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