Why Can't I Have Fun With My Husband Anymore?
I could really use some advice. You can tell me I'm terrible or that our relationship is bad but any advice would be amazing.
I've been married to my husband for a year and have been together with him for almost nine. Lately I've not been feeling any kind of excitement or happiness or joy doing anything with him. He always wants to play video games together or go to the park. But I don't like playing co-op video games and when we go to the park he usually wants to run up steep hills or do something on his own. It doesn't exactly feel like a date.
When I've addressed to him that I'd like an actual date and connections he's started treating everything like it's math and statistics, including our relationship. Like he needs to run the numbers and add things up so that I'll love him more. It feels emotionless. And every conversation feels like he just wants to talk about the levels of productivity in our lives or money. Even yesterday AFTER I got off of work he took me to eat and just started talking to me like I was in an interview, asking what kind of skills I had and how I could use those to reach my goals...
On top of that - and this is where you may judge me most- I've been preferring to hang out with my two best friends instead. I've known them longer than my husband! They make me laugh and we talk about silly things or serious things, but at least it's emotional. And when we go out there's no "requirements" or list of things we must accomplish. (For example if I tell my husband I want to go window shopping then he'll require us to go in every store in the area and closely observe every thing in the store then get mad when I try to tell him I just wanted to look casually). I don't feel anything romantic with my friends but the fact that I'm receiving this kind of fulfilment from them and none from my husband makes me feel guilty.
It's come to a point where I don't even want to think of something I'd like to do with him myself because it'll just feel like I'm spending time with a robot... Any advice would be helpful. I just don't know what to do anymore. I still love him but I feel like everything is just numbers, statistics, gains and losses to him now and I don't know why
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