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When marriages become functional but emotionally distant

My wife and I have been married for twelve years and we're good roommates and good co-parents but somewhere along the way we stopped being lovers or even really friends. We're not unhappy enough to leave but we're not happy enough to stay, and neither of us knows how to bridge that gap.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people can build a successful life together while slowly becoming strangers, creating a peculiar loneliness that lives inside apparent partnership.

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