u/LowkeyLoki503

I love my wife however we haven't been intimate or even slept in the same room in over 8 years. Our marriage feels more like a situationship or roommates. I have not had intimate contact with any person in that same amount of time. I don't know how to proceed. I'm lonely. I'm upset. I've expressed these feelings and they go unrequited. I just want somebody that doesn't necessarily love me but also needs to feel that contact and that emotion the connection I haven't felt in so long. We've been together for 18 years and I understand that things fade and change, but is it really this bad?