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Psychology says men who describe their wife or partner as the person they feel closest to aren’t unusually dependent — among married men, it is overwhelmingly the norm, even as men are far less likely than women to turn to friends for emotional support

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Psychology says men who describe their wife or partner as the person they feel closest to aren’t unusually dependent — among married men, it is overwhelmingly the norm, even as men are far less likely than women to turn to friends for emotional support
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Ask a married man who he feels closest to and there is a decent chance he says his wife, then attaches a small apology to it. Something like “which is probably a bit sad.” He says it the way people admit to a habit.
That apology is misplaced. His answer is the majority answer among married men, and by a wide margin. The more useful question is what he would have said if she had been out of the room.
The numbers are not subtle
The Survey Center on American Life’s 2021 survey of

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