"I am very confused about what to do. I am in my late 40s and have young teenagers. I have been unhappy in my marriage for a long time. If I am honest, I should never have married my husband but I got caught up in the fact that all my friends were getting married and it seemed like the thing to do."
"I have been unhappy in my marriage for a long time. If I am honest, I should never have married my husband but I got caught up in the fact that all my friends were getting married and it seemed like the thing to do. We are very different - he wouldn't have the same interests as me and he wouldn't be as clever as me,"
A woman in her late 40s reports longstanding unhappiness in her marriage while raising young teenagers. She acknowledges that she should not have married her husband and attributes the choice partly to social pressure as friends were marrying. She describes clear differences in interests and perceived intellectual mismatch with her husband. She planned to remain in the marriage until the children left for college and made life decisions based on that timeline. One such decision was enrolling the children in private school. She now feels confused about how to proceed given those commitments and mismatches.
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