My wife and I actually had a time in our lives when we were a roommate relationship. We hadn't had sex in a very long time, we'd pretty well started doing our own things and not really including the other in the doing. It took a conscious decision to try to make things work out. Marriage doesn't work on auto-pilot. Ruts will form and one will end up in a relationship that is not exciting and as such becomes emotionally stunted. In our case it took a near ending of our relationship, a lot of communication, and a little bit of compromise on both our parts. I answered other because I don't think that 'death til you part' is an option if both parties aren't interested in the marriage, I don't think 'fulfilling needs outside the relationship' is an option because you're just expanding on the lie that your relationship is okay and is and abject betrayal of trust, and leaving would be the only other viable choice if my own life hadn't presented another option. Randy.