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Old Aug 29, 2011, 10:46 PM
Auntie M Auntie M is offline
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Originally Posted by Leed View Post
Does he say WHY he hates his wife so? Is she perhaps cruel to him? I'm wondering if she'd be of any help at all, or if she'd get mad at any interference. Have you talked to her much? If you feel it would do any good, go ahead and talk to her -- perhaps between the two of you, you can encourage him to get the help he needs. I sure hope so.
I suspect she'd likely get mad at interference, yes. From what interaction I've had with her, the woman appears to have the personality and intellect of an overstuffed chair. She rarely speaks to -anyone-, on or offline. She is also exceptionally jealous, and isn't too fond of me due to my close relationship with her husband.

If not for his being disabled an unable to work, he says he would have left her long ago. Perhaps they would not even have gotten married in the first place, as it started as an arrangement so that he could receive Social Security benefits more easily.

It doesn't seem to occur to her that he's bored and frustrated and hurting. He tends to close up around anyone but me, but you'd have to be completely dense not to realize that a life of isolation and pain, a marriage where one partner repeatedly says he wishes to sleep in separate beds because the other repulses him so...if she's been living with that for so long and not realized by now that something needs to be done, what the hell can I say that would convince her to take action on behalf the man she supposedly loves? The kicker in all this, she's studying to be a psychologist. It just blows my mind.