McKell...We all "want that!"
I was married unhappily for 20 years, to not such a bad guy, though he has no concept of emotional intimacy.
I left him only when our daughter left home for college, moving into a ratty furnished trailer, and allowing him to write the divorce agreement without lawyers.
I can tell you that being a single female is no cake ride. There are financial challenges, as well as emotional ones. I thought, after the long unhappy and unfufiling marriage, that I'd meet "Mr. Right, " and finally find emotional fulfillment. This didn't happen, and now 11 years since divorce, I'm finding solitary contentment, albeit, with some grief over the loss of never having experienced a satisfying relationship.
I have even thought that maybe I would have been better off to have stuck with the man I married, accepting the lack of emotional intimacy, for which I desperately longed and needed.
I don't know the right solution.
Patty