Question for happily married anons: do you genuinely feel like you couldn’t live without your partner? And was that something you always felt, or did it only come after having kids?I’ve been with my girlfriend for four years now, and I let her move in. On paper, all the boxes are checked, but I still feel like I could live without her if I had to. I’m a pretty good-looking guy, and before her I’d had 40+ partners. I look back at my sexual experiences and crazy late-night stories abroad and sometimes fantasize about chasing that excitement again for the rest of my life.The only reason I don’t is because I fear God and don’t want to go to hell. I’ve been loyal, but I constantly flip between wanting to marry her and wanting to leave her, almost every day. It genuinely feels like an angel and a devil on my shoulders, both telling me what I want to hear—either to stay or to sabotage the relationship and chase those highs I used to feel.Anyway, I’m going to bed. I hope I wake up to some answers. Thank you.
>>34481809I could live without her.I would very very very very very much prefer not to have to.
>>34481809Happily married for 29 years. I could live without her (I did it before I met her after all), but just the thought of living without her hurts quite a lot.
I wouldn’t want to live without her. She makes my day just us being silly together and having fun while raising our little 1 year old. We a rarely ever argue and it’s never a shouting match. So I found a peace in a person that I don’t know I’d ever find in someone else. Nor would I want to move on if something happens to her but I surely COULD live without her but I would not want to live with that agonizing pain of ‘wishing you could be here for this’ or the random memory that pops in your head and you break down. So yeah, would not enjoy not having her around.
