Q: What would you recommend to renew a 38 year marriage that has separated us in most ways except that we are still living in the same house? We each go our separate ways and my spouse advised me over one year ago that he prefers to do things on his own. So what should I do? I have gone this past year mostly alone and I do not enjoy living this way. This is not marriage the way God intended it but I don’t know how to fix it, Please help.
Diane
Bob: Diane, I thought about this a long time – here’s what I have to say to you . . . Usually people get married “until death do us part.”
If you don’t have an intellectual rapport, you are not sharing ideas. Intellectually the marriage is dead.
If you don’t have an emotional rapport, then heart to heart there’s no strong vibration. Emotionally the marriage is dead.
If intellectually and emotionally it’s dead, odds are pretty good your physical life is the same way – there’s no sexual relationship – it’s also dead.
It’s possible that it’s time to give this marriage a quiet funeral and get on with living.