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Is it okay to fall out of love?

Asked by SuperMouse (30845points) April 12th, 2008

After a long marriage I want to leave my husband. I don’t feel any passion at all – never really have. I love him like a brother. Am I allowed to leave him?

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ppcakes's avatar

of course you are allowed to leave him .. you can not control who you fall in or out of love with and it is unfair for you to stay in a relationship with nothing left there, even if it is marriage. follow your heart and make yourself happy, worry about the rest later!

TheHaight's avatar

and you for sure feel this way? Have you tried marriage counseling and told him how you feel??? Wow, and you’ve never really felt any passion? why did you get married then??! Do what makes you happy, because in the end its all about your happiness, wants and needs…..

trainerboy's avatar

Do him a favor and leave. You have been lying for your whole marriage so stop pretending and let him have the opportunity to find someone that will love him.

skwerl88's avatar

do you have children? if so, i’d say no. After you have kids, it stops being about you two, and starts being about them. otherwise, you could be screwing them up or preventing them from having every opportunity for selfish reasons.

ppcakes's avatar

i don’t think kids should keep you two together, because if your not happy your kids wont be happpy. you will not prevent them from anything depending how independent you are… i come from a single parent home and theirs nothing i have been deprived of, i feel like i am even better off then some families that are still together.

sable's avatar

Of course, you’re allowed. People just grow and change. Allow both of you the opporunity to find happiness.

Thesilvertiger's avatar

I would say its alright but I have never COMPLETELY fallin out of love, kind of sucks.

Lee_27's avatar

I was in same situation married my husband cause I got pregnant and it was the right thing to do and I never was truly in love with him and he never worked showed me no affection said hardly any kind words and after 10 long years I left and its the best thing I have ever done and I am a better mom and person for having done it.

glial's avatar

Are you my wife?

Acrazycouple's avatar

Hmmmm. Is this you? Is it OK to fall out of love? Yes, nobody can give you permission either way. Be careful, though, is this boredom and are you changing the rules to the game? Either way, you have to look at your reality and choose what’s meaningful and what’s important to you.

gimmedat's avatar

You don’t just fall out of love with someone, do you? How bad would it suck to be on the receiving end of that statement?

pattyb's avatar

Do you ever “depend” on him. Would you consider him to be a trustworthy true blue friend? Ask yourself these ?‘s, and really look inside yourself and ask how important is “passion” to you. Is it sexual passion that you talk about. Do you have kids? Is he “passionate” bout being a father?

skfinkel's avatar

I was going to say that if you fall out of love, you were probably never in love in the first place, but you kind of said that yourself. So, I of course have no idea why you married him in the first place—but I would look at those reasons and ruminate on them. What has changed? And what about him? how does he feel about this? and, of course, if children are involved, that does change the equation—it’s not just about you any more.

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