Replies to '09/05 The Divorce Experiment'

I know how she feels.  I have been married for 17 years and the last few years things have been like that.  If I ask him to help do something around the house, I get the "smirk" and the " it's not my job".  It really upsets me to think that he doesn't respect me anymore than that.   I have become very bitter in my life because of it.   I don't know how to feel any other way.  Last November I had enough and told him that I wanted a divorce.  He was very upset to think that I wanted to leave.  I told him how I felt about everything and he wanted to try and make things better.  I agreed with the understanding that if I thought things weren't going well I would leave.  Things were fine, but now it's back to the same old crap.  I don't understand why he is like this.  Men like this need to see what  it's like to have to do everything and not be appreciated for it.