from lovers to co-parents: can we save our marriage?

Is staying together for our child kinder than ending a marriage that already feels over?

My husband and I have been separated for almost a year, though he lives only fifteen minutes away. We still spend time together with our five-year-old son and present ourselves as a normal family, but our marriage has no love or intimacy, and the home feels cold and silent after our son goes to sleep. I am deciding whether to continue with the divorce or try to stay together for him.

Should we really stay together just for the kids when the marriage is already dead?

My spouse and I have been separated for almost a year, and we have a five-year-old child. We still spend weekends together co-parenting and present ourselves as a happy team, but our interactions are cold and scripted, and our child asks why the other parent cannot sleep at home.

We opened our marriage and now another woman is pregnant—can we survive this?

I have been married to my husband for twelve years, and we have had a good relationship. Two years ago, we mutually opened our marriage under detailed rules limiting outside relationships to sex, but six months ago a regular outside partner accidentally became pregnant and has decided to raise the child independently; the child will be my husband’s biological child.

How do I decide whether staying in this cold, empty marriage or divorcing would be healthier for my son?

My husband and I have been separated for almost a year, but we still act like a family in front of our five-year-old son, who asks when his father is coming home. Our marriage feels emotionally dead, and I feel torn between staying together for him and divorcing.