Marriage with no intimacy
I am currently in a relationship where one foot is already out the door. I have been married for 8 years; however over the past seven years my husband has shown very little interest in me physically. I am 30 and my husband is 38. We rarely had sex in past seven years. At last in average three or four times a year. Most were when we were trying to have a child. We have a five year old son now.
I was very confused and I didn’t know what to do or say. I didn’t want to complain since everything else was so great in our life. He was a very caring, loving, and loyal person. Still intimacy problem was always bothering me in our life and I couldn’t stop thinking what the problem can be. He never talked about it even once and everything seemed to be Okay to him. Finally last year I decided to talk to him about how I feel. As soon as I opened up to him everything got worse in our life. He even stopped hugging me, kissing me and holding my hand. He made a distance between us bigger and bigger. First he said that he had no idea about this problem in our life and he has never seen such a thing as a problem in life. After months I was begging him to find out and solve the problem he told me that he is not attracted to me anymore and there is no chemistry. Why and how, he never wants to talk about it. I don’t believe he is cheating on me. I was about leaving him but he didn’t want me to leave. He has seen two therapists in a past year. None of them worked. Every time I tried to get intimate, he rejected me and said he is not attracted to me and cannot do anything with me. I was so sad and depressed and in tears most days for a past year.
Our life has totally changed since I opened up this problem. And I blame myself for it. Not only the intimacy problem has been never solved but we have lost what we had before. He is not the same person he used to be. He doesn’t like to talk and he is very cold. He seems very unhappy now. He was never like this before I opened up this problem last year. He loved me and was very nice to me and doing many things to make me happy. But now he doesn’t care about anything. He is telling me that he is not in love with me anymore and he can just love me as a friend and as a mother of his child not as his wife. He wanted me to keep our marriage just for the sake of our son. But it is not easy for me since I am so hurt for what he did and said to me in a past year. He just wants to talk about what to do with our son if we are not going to be together and never say a word about fixing our marriage. Last month we decided to get separated and now he seems very Okay with it. His excuse is that he doesn’t want to hurt me anymore and see me sad and depressed all time. Now I don't know what to do. These are the valid reasons to give up on my marriage? Is there any way to fix anything now? Please advice.