Quote From: certinsane1I have posted here a couple of times, and yet I am back...I love my husband with all my heart. But more often than not, not as a man...more as a friend. We have been together for 13 years now...we have 3 beautiful boys...but we fight alot....I had an affair once, and I admited it, ended it and went to counseling. He never lets me live it down though...He looks at me funny when I say I am going to visit my mother or sister, which I am...I am not messing around now. Our sex life is the best part of our relationship...but we can't seem to get the rest of it straight. Is it wrong to stay until your kids are older? mine are 12 and 7. I wake up everyday hating my life. I am going back to school, and trying to better our life, but my husband is not supportive of that at all. He wants things to be all about him. I want more out of life than he does...How does one cope in these situations?
It sounds to me like you want to leave him and are just looking for justification to do so. To be honest from my perspective, it doesn't matter if your kids are 12 and 7, 6 and 1, 24 and 19, or 46 and 41. All children want to see their parents together, mentally healthy, and happy. You have 1 of the 3. Nothing you have told the board suggests a dealbreaker, something that cannot be tolerated. He has trust issues because of your affair. Well, can you blame him? Put yourself in his shoes, would you trust someone that cheated on you implicitly and without suspicion? Sorry, the human brain doesn't forget trauma that quickly.
My suggestion, get Dr. Phil Relationship Rescue, read it, do the exercises and start practicing the advice. If you husband will read it with you then even better, but that isn't necessary. Dr. Phil wrote it so that even if one is spouse is completely unplugged the other spouse can better the relationship by putting into practice his advice. My next suggestions is to get back into counseling. Together is better, but alone is fine if he won't go. Eventually he has to deal with his trust issues, but until then I detect that their is an awful lot you could improve about yourself that might make the old boy come around. You can't fix your marriage until you fix you. That is why Dr. Phil's book causes you to concentrate on you.
Or you could take the easy way out, throw up your hands and give up. You wouldn't be alone, nearly 75% of marriages now end in divorce.