Zaara,
I've been completely and totally honest with my wife about how I feel. She knows it's a problem. A few years ago things flaired up so badly I was ready to leave and she ended up sitting on the floor bawling, begging me to stay. Obviously, I did.
I feel like several of you think this is about sex, but I've said it several times already.....it really isn't. My wife and I don't have any real intimacy. Obviously, sex is a huge part of intimacy, but we have plenty of sex. I realize that none of this seems to make any sense, but the simplest way to put it (as I already have) is that it feels like I am living with a friend.
And none of you really have the whole picture because I'm obviously very uncomfortable talking about this with anyone other than her.
She's openly admits to being an extraordinarily selfish person. She's the primary reason we never had children because she didn't want that responsibility. Ok, fine. They're not for everyone and I can understand her position, but it just reinforces that our relationship is primarily about her. She has, on numerous occasions, told me that "I don't deserve you" and "The right thing to do would be to let you go," but that just pours salt in the wound for me because she obviously knows she's the problem. However, she isn't willing (or maybe, capable) of doing anything about it. Not to mention I want HER. I keep holding on hoping that one day things will change, but that doesn't mean that I won't get incredibly frustrated along the way.
I may be giving some of you the impression that I am in a daily struggle to avoid cheating on my wife, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I do get disappointed fairly often, but I only melt down once every year or two. And I don't think my frustration is really out of line. Just three days ago we were lying in bed watching T.V. and she asks me to finger her for a couple quick orgasms. After the second one she says: "I feel really bad because you're not going to get anything." Jesus Christ, that's soul crushing.