Posts about marriage and living together

Anonymous 2026/09/29 I’m jealous of my best friend’s marriage and I’ve started avoiding her because I don’t like who I become around her. We got married around the same time. Her husband cooks, plans dates, helps with their kids, remembers things without being reminded, and actual…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I’ve been married for years and I recently realized that I don’t fantasize about another woman, I fantasize about living alone, and somehow that scares me more than if I were attracted to somebody else because at least then I could point to a problem. My wife …

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I’m starting to think I don’t want kids, and I’m terrified to tell my fiancé because we got engaged under the assumption that we would have them. I never lied exactly. For years I genuinely thought I wanted a family because that’s just how I pictured adulthood…

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Anonymous 2026/09/27 I’ve been married long enough that people around us have started calling us “one of the good couples,” and every single time somebody says that I feel like a fraud. My husband hasn’t cheated on me, at least not in any way I can prove, but for the past year the…

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Anonymous 2026/09/27 My wife had an affair seven years ago and I stayed, but sometimes I think staying changed me into someone I don’t like. We did all the things people tell you to do. Marriage counseling, transparency, passwords, long conversations, boundaries, accountability. S…

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Anonymous 2026/09/27 My sister is marrying a man I cannot stand, and everybody thinks I’m jealous because she’s getting married before me. I wish it were that simple. He has never hit her, never cheated that I know of, and he’s charming enough around our parents that they love him…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I used to think emotional affairs were something people invented to make normal friendships sound dramatic until I watched my husband have one. There was no sex that I know of. No hotel room, no kissing, no dating app. Just a woman from work who slowly became …

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Anonymous 2026/09/27 I think I’m emotionally attached to my therapist and I’m embarrassed even typing that. Before anybody assumes something inappropriate happened, it didn’t. She has never crossed a line. She has never flirted with me. She’s professional, kind, consistent, and pr…

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Anonymous 2026/09/27 Nobody knows how broke I actually am, including my wife. We make what most people would consider decent money and from the outside we look comfortably middle class. Two cars, decent house, kids in activities, vacations once in awhile, dinner out on weekends. T…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I had an abortion years ago and never told the man I was dating at the time, and recently I found out he’s struggling with infertility with his wife. I haven’t spoken to him in years. We weren’t married, the relationship was unstable, and when I got pregnant I…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I’m afraid my husband is becoming like his father and I don’t know if it’s fair to judge somebody based on patterns they haven’t fully repeated yet. His father was controlling with money, dismissive of his wife, and the kind of man who thought paying the bills…

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Anonymous 2026/09/29 I’m the executor of my uncle’s estate and I found a letter he clearly never intended the family to see. He died unexpectedly and left me in charge because I’m “the organized one.” While going through documents, I found a sealed envelope with no legal instructi…

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