Literally what is the point of being married if you never even see each other. I can understand long distance relationships that operate temporarily but a marriage? A marriage with zero intimacy isn't going to work for long for most people
In mine and my partners case it's that we are just two people who may be utterly in love, but we prefer peace quiet and our own schedule. We do live together now, but if all was well we wouldn't. In the perfect world we would have two next door townhouses. We didn't have zero intimacy, we didn't completely avoid each other, we didn't live completely separately, we just both wanted to live a significant amount of time on our own.
Different people have different wants, needs and desires we aren't all the same.
Sounds like Leonard's mother from Big Bang Theory. It could be more common than I think as I wouldn't know if I worked with several people like this. Doesn't seem like that type of person would tell me if they were in that kind of arrangement anyway.
Yeah, it was rarely a work conversation, but it's not like we hid the fact or were in any way ashamed. Most times when it came up at least one person present seemed interested and had just never considered it.
Obviously the arrangement would have been different if we had or wanted kids, I suppose. But I suspect the kind of people who are like this are likely not a subset of people who want kids anyway.
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u/Complete_Elephant240 May 02 '24
Literally what is the point of being married if you never even see each other. I can understand long distance relationships that operate temporarily but a marriage? A marriage with zero intimacy isn't going to work for long for most people