He continues to make bad business decisions and will not listen to sound commercial advice, blustering to get his own way or going on the extreme defensive – so I am always the bad cop.
We talked it through and concluded that although his stupid diary inflicted a wound on the new marriage, it was the fatal combination of her husband’s indifference and her disillusion that made that wound fester, until the disease in the blood infected everything.
Bel Mooney replies: Once upon a time I had a close friend who married young after knowing her husband a matter of months.
When one partner feels contempt (or something very like it) for the other, a good relationship is doomed, even if the couple stay unhappily together for the rest of their lives.
I wonder if it might act as a useful shock to show him this page and reveal that you actually wrote to a stranger because it gives you such pain to feel so disillusioned – and what is he going to do about it?.
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