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Commitement to marraige Vs self happiness.. What is more important ??

I have been married since 18 yrs. I married with a belief that all humans are equal and did not look for match of my specific choice for my partner. It took more than a year to know each other however it was late for to come out from commitement to be together with her. i tried my best for more than 16 yrs but could not enjoy and make her happy in any way as she is too dumb and has no ability to get along with me or life. I have found one good friend now and feeling great with her. we both share great relationship..

Not sure now what to do as two swords can not stay together..

Update:

I already inroduced my friend to my wife and requsted my wife if she can accept our friendship and make me feel good on life. Since we have kids i dont see any possibility of leaving her. My friend is also married and our understanding was to keep our friendship and also keep respective families and feel good on relationship. Her spouse is understanding the point but my wife hurted a lot and is not forgiving me now on my friendship. My wife has given me only one option either choose her or my friend.

If my wife can accpet our friendship i feel i can handle evrything in best way and feel good on life too. i tried but nothing worked out and i am having bad time now with my wife.

But love feeling is too good to feel on for both of us and we really see no reason to loose that as we have great feelngs to feel on and nothing can make us feeling better than this and loosing anything is fine if it can't be worked out in matured /unusal way!!

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  • 2 decades ago
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    maybe you should talk to her about it, and let her know how you feel. but do you really want to throw away 18 years of marriage? she might just feel the same way, you never know. talk to her first, and really think about it. is this really what you want to do?

  • 2 decades ago

    No, two swords cannot stay together. If you are already enjoying the company of someone else, I would say your marriage is over. You must be happy first and foremost. We only have one life to live, and cannot do it over. Ask yourself if you were going to die in 5 years, is this the way you want to live out the last years? You should live your life to the fullest and happiest potential you can find. You never know when it will end.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    Truth is you did make a commitment to her, so chances are you found something good in her in the beginning. Try finding it again.Sometimes priorities change. If there are little ones involved her priority is probably with them. It doesn't mean you should you feel the same, but don't ditch your wife for someone that's okay with you being married now, and dating her, because you'll will probably never be able trust each other if you did.

  • 2 decades ago

    that's the reason why it is important to know what you are getting yourself into before you make a commitment to marriage because as i understand it, marriage is supposed to be for life. Secondly, it is a known fact that you cannot have everything you desire on earth, it's just a matter of a choice. We choose to stay with our partners not because they are perfect but because we chose to stay with them. I believe you can work out things between you and your wife if you learn to accept each other otherwise i agree with your wife to choose between her and your friend because you cannot have both worlds.

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  • 2 decades ago

    What a dumb excuse you made. Please tell me you have no kids. If you have you ought to have your tail kicked. Yes, two swords can live together. They can sharpen each other if you the man will start acting like a man.So you want to run off with another, dumb? The next has even less chance of success. C'mon, grow up and get busy making a good marriage.

  • 2 decades ago

    Please go to marriage counseling, your wife maybe not smart or not charm, but she give her best years of her life for you, she deserve it, please do your best, I think you should stop seeing your friend, with her in the picture, there is little chance to save the marriage, because she is new, you are focus on her nice parts and your wife's bad parts, maybe your friend is great now, but if you divorce your wife and marry her, there could be a lot of other problems. Most marriages have problems, it is a life time job to work on the problems. Is your wife faithful to you? think about it, if she is, please respect her and go to counseling.

  • 2 decades ago

    If you have kids, you have no choice but stay with her for the rest of ur life. But if no kids, i think u guys should stay apart. U have already spent most of ur precious time with someone who doesn't even understand ur feelings. U need some quality time in ur life, dear.

  • 2 decades ago

    Self happiness is important, because if you're miserable, then you'll only make her miserable too.

  • 2 decades ago

    think about this real close cheating on the other can not get you in the doors of heaven

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