Separated after 21 years and 10 years of marriage 🥺
Good afternoon everyone. First off hello, and thanks again for the help so far @Mark Cox My situation is like most here, after 21 years of being with my wife, 10 of them married, she turned round to me on the 19/04/26 that she no longer wanted to be in the relationship and marriage. No other people are involved from either side, we slowly over time grew distant and through a lot of my actions and the way I was in the relationship and marriage she decided enough was enough. In this month I have struggled so much with my mental state of mind and my actions that only shows her she made the right decision to leave. We have 2 children, so we still see each other nearly every day, I did move out our family home, as I felt it was the right thing to do as if staying it would have only made matters worse. I’ve made a lot of errors so far, I’ve done the begging, the pleading, changed my whole lifestyle to show her I can be the man she deserves and while doing it for me as well to become a better man all round I am doing it for her too. She has no feelings what so ever and has said on the day we ended she felt relieved, no more stress, didn’t miss me and feels nothing inside, this plays in my head daily and breaks me everytime. She hasn’t really opened up to anyone, friends or family where I’m a broken man daily. I can’t see a future without her and will do all I can to save my marriage, I’ve always had a lack of patience and I want her to say everyday “oh ok let’s try 1 more time” but I know I’m going to have to run about 100 marathons and hope she is waiting at that finish line. Currently I know deep down that’s highly unlikely. I’ve broken down so many times when I’ve seen her, and I know that’s only pushing her further away I need to get out of this mindset and try and be normal and myself and show her I can still be the man and the husband as I’ve said she deserves. I know I was 90/10 to blame for the break down and I know in time I can show her and change for the good.