He Said His Life Would Be Better Without His Wife In It Because She Always Tries To One-Up Him Or Claim He’s Wrong Whenever He Just Needs Her Support
This 43-year-old guy and his wife Anne, who’s 46, have been married for 13 years and never had any children.
Back when they first started dating, no one made him happier than Anne, either.
“She always seemed to know exactly the right thing to say to me when I was down,” he recalled.
The past decade, though, has been different. He feels like his wife has suddenly begun to show her “true colors,” something that her ex-husband had actually warned him about once.
One issue has to do with Anne’s lack of support. For some context, he has an extremely high-stress job where he’s constantly solving other people’s problems. Then, when he gets home, Anne always bombards him with more issues to fix.
It’s particularly frustrating because his wife actually doesn’t work and is free to figure out all of these problems during the day. However, she waits until he gets home from the office and presents him with lists of tasks.
“But my biggest issue with Anne is that I can’t ever really open up to her about anything. Whenever I talk about something bad that happened to me, she’ll either try to one-up me or agree with the person who wronged me,” he detailed.
For instance, just last Friday, he had a terrible day at work. There was a huge problem that he was responsible for solving alone. Then, after he left the office, he was just trying to cross the street when a person riding a bike flew through a red light and clipped him.
The cyclist cursed him out before riding away. He considered calling the police since it was technically a hit-and-run, but he figured they wouldn’t be able to do much.
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So, he headed home and wanted to lean on his wife following such a tough day. He tried to talk to her about what had happened. Yet once she heard him out, she quickly took the cyclist’s side.
He pointed out how he had the green signal to cross and that the cyclist ran a red light. Still, his wife kept claiming that cyclists weren’t required to stop, and when he tried telling her that she was wrong, she just hopped on Google and proceeded to search up laws frantically.
“She found that in our state, they can treat lights like a stop sign. She began triumphantly reading the law to me loudly, word for word, getting louder when I kept trying to tell her that I wasn’t interested,” he explained.
Once Anne was finished, she also turned toward him with this very arrogant look, as if she was rubbing his face in the fact that she was right.
He couldn’t stand it anymore and just stared at his wife for a moment. Then, he admitted his honest feelings.
“I said that my life would be better without her,” he revealed.
This infuriated Anne, and she kept screaming at him until she basically lost her voice. She even packed a bag and went to stay with her parents.
Over the weekend, she blew up his phone, too, and demanded that he apologize.
Nonetheless, he hasn’t answered his wife yet, and he’s not sure if his statement was justified or truly unforgivable.
Should he be able to talk to his wife without the fear of being one-upped or judged? What advice would you give him?
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