Hi, I am single and have no children so I can't relate to this, but I have a friend who has been married for 20 years with a 5 year old daughter. His marriage has been falling apart for awhile and he and his wife separated about 6 months ago. He was the one taking care of his daughter and he saw how much she missed her mom, only getting to see her on occaision, etc. He was also having a hard time with doing all of the parenting on top of running 2 businesses. Recently his wife has been spending time back at his place to be more involved in the child's life and help with the parenting, etc. The problem is the marriage is dead, so to speak, but they are living together for the sake of their child. So my question is can this work? Has anyone had this experience? Can two people live together and go through the motions of being married when the marriage has died years ago?