I am new to this forum.
I had an arranged marriage in Feb 2011. Our marriage was rough since the beginning. These were the problems:
- My marriage is still not conssumated. We did get physical but never conssumated. She is completely disinterested in s*x
- My wife was suffering from depression since before marriage and did not tell us. I took her to counsellors but after a while she would go alone and I did not know what was happening with her life as she would go to her parent's place even without telling us and stay there for days. We never came to know about her treatment except that she would take tranquilisers. She is cured now though
- She sleeps the whole day. Sleeps for more than 14 hours everyday. She had a good job but was fired two months after marriage due to non-performance.She was given two warning even before we had gotten married and we had never asked her to leave her job.
- We moved to our own place (owned by my parents) into a two bedroom apartment. We sleep in seperate rooms. We moved here three years ago and for the first 9 months,she mostly stayed at her parent's place.
- When my parent's visit, I have to sleep in the drawing room and my parent's live in the room I stay in.
- She has never done any housework and I never forced her to do it. Though when we have fought, I do bring it up.
I wanted to fix my marriage but last year in January, I decided to call it quits. My wife said she will sign the divorce papers. I had the mutual consent divorce papers made which she then refused to sign. She says she will not sign and gives different reasons everytime. She said she wanted the house we live in. It is owned by my mother. When I said I can igve her alimony, she says her father has asked her not to sign the papers.
When I ask her to move out of the house, she says her father has asked her not to move out of the house. We do not fight but nothing which we can call marriage exists between us. We live like two seperate unrelated people in the same house. She does say she wants divorce but her parents are not allowing it.
My query:
What are my options? I want a peaceful divorce - most preferably a mutual consent one.
Can I file for a divorce petition in court while we are staying in the same house?
Should I move out of the house? We can not afford to lose the house at it is all my parent's savings.
Please help people.
Thanks