>Sometimes you really need someone other than your husband >to talk about things with, both for advice and for validation, This is not new. This is why, after all, girlfriends and drinking buddies were invented. :-) You need spouses to talk things over with that you couldn't tell your best friend - and vice versa. They're safety valves for each other.
(Or so I am told, livelong bachelor that I am.)
>and for the "oh, you too?" response. It's nice to know that I'm not the >only wife who sometimes feels like failure as a wife when she's unable >to cheer her husband up. Yeah. It's happened to me, too, and I'm not even married. . .
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>to talk about things with, both for advice and for validation,
This is not new. This is why, after all, girlfriends and drinking buddies
were invented. :-) You need spouses to talk things over with that
you couldn't tell your best friend - and vice versa. They're safety
valves for each other.
(Or so I am told, livelong bachelor that I am.)
>and for the "oh, you too?" response. It's nice to know that I'm not the
>only wife who sometimes feels like failure as a wife when she's unable
>to cheer her husband up.
Yeah. It's happened to me, too, and I'm not even married. . .