Dear Mary: I’m deeply lonely and crippled by isolation but my cold-hearted husband doesn’t care

"I have thought of moving close to town to, at least, look at the street lights when night falls." Image: Getty

Mary O'Conor

I am a lady in my sixties with no children and an intense feeling of emptiness in my life as I’m growing older. My husband has no feeling of emptiness even though he is estranged from his siblings. He is a naturalist and is very happy with his lot.

Isolation cripples the essence of my being, especially at Christmas. My weekends are long and lonely. My husband is happy to read the daily newspapers from cover to cover. There is an absence of true love in our relationship and I have been running from that for many years. My husband denies this. I had many loving, caring relationships in my single life, but sadly I chose the coldest partner I could possibly have chosen.