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Originally Posted by girlski0912
Laugh it up fuzzball ;)
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It is hearing stories like R's that often makes me wonder why, in light of completely destructive relationships that are soooo blatantly unhealthy, people think that marriage is the answer.
Yeah, I've never understood that. But I have had a friend or two who took the plunge thinking that...with the exception of one guy, it didn't work out so well, and that one guy is in medical school so it's easy for him to avoid her.
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But honestly, R's self esteem could secretly be so low that he honestly doesn't believe that he deserves anything better.
Could be, or he could just never have been taught that he should want/expect anything better. I have a friend who lets people treat her badly and doesn't do anything to stop it. Her family is very self absorbed and petty. She grew up with that as "normal" and while she somehow avoided becomeing like them she was never treated well so she doesn't expect it now. Her coworkers would push stuff off on her that wasn't her responsibility and try to blame things on her that she had nothing to do with (she was the youngest person working in her office and the only one with a college degree, everyone else was a secretary or such that had moved up over the decades. Her job was to "modernize" the office...that didn't go over well with everyone else.)and she would never stand up for herself and set things straight, she would just take it and end up looking bad to the higher ups.
I don't feel bad for R in this situation, because he is getting what he wants(or what he needs) out of the relationship. I feel bad for his friends and, in the future, his kids.:nonono2:
There's really nothing his friends can do except be a good friend when he needs one. I have a friend who is in almost the exact same situation as R. Only has been married for three years. If we(my close group of friends or I) call him and leave a message with his wife, she won't give it to him. Not because she knows us and doesn't like us(she has never spent any time around us despite out best efforts, she seems to have no desire to know her husbands friends.) she just doesn't want him to be away from their house...it's so bizzar. On the rare ocassion he does come out with us he has to call two or three time while we're out otherwise there will be hell to pay when he gets home. I'll never understand what he saw in her, and I can't imagine he is happy with his life now, but he made the choice to be with her and I have to respect his choices...