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Now today's first story is titled, My Wife Friends Owned Me and

once a platonic companionship. My wife 35 female and I 35 male have been married for 15 years

and we've been together for 20 years. We have two kids, 12 and 14. We absolutely adore and work tirelessly

to provide the best possible life for them. For the past three years, things have been somewhat

bumpy. I understand that our kids are at an age where they require a ton of our attention

and resources with school, band, club sports and other extracurriculars, and I'm aware

of the physical and emotional toll that can have on marriages. However, for these past three years,

my wife and I have had very little intimacy and very little sex and we've been trying very hard

to work on that aspect of our relationship. This past year has been the most

difficult and by far the darkest year in our marriage. We didn't talk very much. We essentially

became roommates co-parenting our kids under the same roof. It was very depressing and very demoralizing.

It was to the point where we began contemplating divorce and it became very

dark and gloomy in the household because of that. We began seeking help with both

individualized therapy and couples therapy and it seems to have helped some. Little by little we

started to get along and started to have deeper conversations about what our marriage looks like

and what we would love for it to look like. This is where it gets tough. As time passed, my wife

started to tell me that she was no longer in love with me and that she only saw me as a best friend.

That she loved me in a very platonic way and this was one of the main reasons she didn't have any desire for intimacy and let alone sex

this was very shocking to me and quite frankly i was devastated i became angry and depressed and i couldn't fathom the thought that i was no longer wanted or desired by the person I felt completely in love with.

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