[RobRoy]

Yes. I was at a wedding last summer where I met the woman who stayed with her husband. She said she stopped going to the “ladies night out” because it was basically a “complain about your husband and get moral support” session. You know, the old, “my husband did such and such.” and “I don’t know why you put up with him” baloney.

True friends don’t respond that way, unless we are talking REAL abuse.

[ExTxMarine]

...it was basically a “complain about your husband and get moral support” session.

My wife was getting into that same depression mode and she met up with an old high school friend (actually an old high school boyfriend) and started talking about how bad I am and how I didn't do this or I always wanted to do that, etc...! I found this out because she told me they were just talking. Then she started telling me I needed to do this or that and that is what "she thinks." Stuff that was NOT coming from my wife!

I told her if she had complaints, etc... then she and I needed to talk about those items, not her and someone else. She said, it wasn't like that. Then I said, if he doesn't know my side of the entire story then he is simply giving you the moral support that everything YOU are feeling is right, which makes me the BAD guy - no matter what.

It took her almost six months to finally realize that I was right and that he was leading her to question her marriage to me. She said she was trying to fix US without including me in the conversations! Earlier this month we celebrated 24 years together! I thank God that she decided to sit down and talk to me about these things and not someone else!