He Admits That His Wife Is Totally Out Of His League, Yet He’s Just Not Happy Being Married To Her

This 43-year-old man has a wife a year younger than he is, and they have been in a relationship for 2 decades now.
What first drew them together is the fact that they were part of the same church, which he says is really more like a cult, but years ago, they stopped believing in that and have been left with basically no commonalities.
His wife is the breadwinner of their household, while he is a stay-at-home dad. He’s more of the “nurturing” kind of person, and his wife has always been super invested in her career, so they decided that he would be the one to raise their children.
Right now, his wife actually makes 20 times what he was making while he still was working. And she travels a ton, but when she isn’t traveling, she’s still more invested in her career than in him and their children.
Monday through Friday, he and their children honestly don’t see her much at all.
“I think I’m a decent father, but my wife and I no longer exist in the same world,” he explained. “I die inside whenever I have to interact with her peers.”
“We live in a wealthy area where there are plenty of stay-at-home moms, but society just doesn’t regard being a stay-at-home dad in the same way, so I feel like I have no value except to our kids. I have no friends, siblings, or peers.”
“My wife is also really attractive, while I’m just average. She’s fun and social, while I prefer to keep to myself. She excels at everything, in and out of work, while I don’t really excel at anything. All this should probably make me feel lucky, and she should be dissatisfied, but somehow I feel empty while she seems perfectly happy.”
He really does believe that the biggest issue in their lives is that his wife doesn’t think their marriage is that important.

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Don’t get him wrong, he knows his wife enjoys being married and enjoys having children, but he views himself as one thing on her list she can check off as an accomplishment.
He also is convinced that his wife is passionate about her job and nothing else, and he would categorize their marriage as “painfully basic.”
That absolutely works for his wife because she doesn’t want anything more than that, but it doesn’t work for him.
He wishes it wasn’t this way. He wishes he was deeply in love with his wife. He wishes he could have a great time being around her.
But he knows it will never happen because his wife just doesn’t care. If it doesn’t involve her job, it’s not important to her.
“Why bother going to marriage counseling if this is who she really is?” he wondered. “I can’t change her, and I don’t want her to pretend to be someone she’s not.”
“…I don’t think we’re really compatible as partners, but it feels insane to think that I would ever leave her because she’s great on paper, and I know I would have an impossible time finding someone else. She and the kids are happy, so I’m the only one feeling alone, and I’m convinced the grass would not be greener on the other side, so I maintain the status quo. What would you do in this situation?”
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