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Do you BOTH feel this way? Is it more of a sexual problem than an emotional one? If so, can you make an arrangement where you will continue to live together to share expenses and insurance but see other people? I know several couples in open marriages with different rules for each one (some are DADT, some are "tell me everything," etc.) but they're still going strong after 20, 25 and 30 years. It's no longer the 1950s or 1960s and there are lots of different types of relationships available. Where I live no one would bat an eye at any of them.
I think a trap a lot of people fall into is expecting one person to provide EVERYTHING they need and that just doesn't happen. Also, in general, it seems women get a much worse deal out of marriage than men. For example, when I was researching the emotional aspects of having cancer I read that "a woman is six times more likely to be separated or divorced soon after a diagnosis of cancer than if a man in the relationship is the patient."
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My friend marriage is a covenant, it not every one can live with open marriage. I know of a woman she, felt her and her husband had an understanding the marriage was over she got herself another man, while the two of them were still bound in marriage, her husband shot them both dead. We never know just what a person can live with.
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@scottbeammeup what you said:
“I think a trap a lot of people fall into is expecting one person to provide EVERYTHING they need and that just doesn't happen. Also, in general, it seems women get a much worse deal out of marriage than men. For example, when I was researching the emotional aspects of having cancer I read that ‘a woman is six times more likely to be separated or divorced soon after a diagnosis of cancer than if a man in the relationship is the patient.’”
That. is spot on!