Psychology says people who have no close friends outside of their spouse haven’t done anything wrong — they’ve simply built an arrangement where their partner is the friend, the confidant, the witness, the everything — and the burden on the spouse is invisible until something happens, and then everyone in the marriage discovers at once that one person cannot meet every emotional need of another no matter how good the love is
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Everyone tells you that you need friends outside your marriage. I spent twenty years thinking that was nonsense.
My buddy called me last week. His voice was different: quieter than usual. His wife had just left for a two-week trip to help her sister, and he’d realized something that scared him. He had nobody to call. Not for an emergency, not for a beer, not even to complain about the Patriots game. His wife was his everything: his best friend, his sounding board, his social life. Now that
My buddy called me last week. His voice was different: quieter than usual. His wife had just left for a two-week trip to help her sister, and he’d realized something that scared him. He had nobody to call. Not for an emergency, not for a beer, not even to complain about the Patriots game. His wife was his everything: his best friend, his sounding board, his social life. Now that
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