My wife is going through a "pre-mid life" crisis.
Here is the background. We got married 5 years ago after dating for a year. We then got pregnant about 6 months after being married. She is 31 now and I am 37. She has been a stay at home mom for almost 4 years now with our 2 kids. One is 4 and the other is 2.
She told me about a month ago that she is having an identity crisis. She misses having "her" time and needs to get some of that back. One way we are addressing this is by giving her a day off. So on some weekends she will go out with her sister, stay there, and then come home the next day.
This weekend she told me that she now is having thoughts about wanting to sleep with other men. She is a very upfront person and is being brutally honest. She still loves me very much and is mostly just trying to be pro-active about this. She promises that she hasn't already slept with anyone else and I believe her. There are too many other things that have happened to not let me think that. She just believes that monogamy is just not possible. We know so many people that have had affairs and are unfaithful. She is OK with me going out and sleeping with women as well. She misses the freedom and liberating feeling of being hit on and then going on "first dates". I guess she is almost suggesting that we have an open marriage. I am not sure that I am secure enough to go through this. We have a great relationship but this part of her life is missing.
I am curious if anyone else has gone through something like this.