Top 10 Signs You are Stuck in a Bad Marriage
1. Your spouse arrives home two hours late. You are not mad or relieved. Rather, you are disappointed. You’d hoped he or she wouldn’t come home at all.
2. You fantasize about discovering your spouse cheating. That way you won’t feel guilty about asking for a divorce.
3. You are having an emotional affair with a member of the opposite sex.
4. You gripe about your spouse to a member of the opposite sex, who gripes about his/her spouse to you.
5. You don’t remember the last time you had sex, and you’d like to keep it that way.
6. If you won a free vacation for two to Fiji, you’d take your mother with you instead of your spouse.
7. You stay up late at night watching Judge Judy reruns so your spouse will definitely be asleep by the time you crawl into bed.
8. You have to drink two glasses of wine before you can bring yourself to small talk with your spouse.
9. If you won the lottery, you’re not sure whether or not you would tell your spouse. You might just take the money and run.
10. You can’t remember why you got married. You suspect you might have been brain washed.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 10:55 am
Uh-oh. Is 8 out of 10 bad?
April 4th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
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April 7th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Wow. I know this is probably supposed to be funny, but God can I ever relate. I second LeAnn. Is 10/10 bad?
April 17th, 2009 at 5:46 am
Wow, validating. I figured this out before I got married.
Signed,
Ex-fiance’
June 8th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Oh, that is horrible.
Have you noticed you always employ heteronormativity in your posts? I think it would be positive to widen your scope. Instead of “member of the opposite sex” you could say “someone you are attracted to.” I say this also because this post is applicable to non-married couples too.
August 7th, 2009 at 10:10 am
I can relate to all of these:( My kids are grown but I’m too afraid to leave, been this way for probably 20 out of 27 years.
August 7th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Is it bad that i go to bed at like 8pm so that i know that i will be asleep when he comes to bed? is it awful that i get anxious when i think about going home, and i fantisize about picking up my kid and just taking off forever? if it wasn’t for the fact that he is such a good dad and that it is just wrong to take a child from a parent i would.
September 11th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
I know just how Shelly feels. I am so much happier when he’s not around. I know that this is definitely a sign. I just always feel so on edge when he’s near. It’s not that he’s a bad person, but I just don’t like him anymore. It’s just sad.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:34 am
Great statements above & Finespun site
September 24th, 2009 at 3:35 am
when the marriage is not healhty anymore, why stay?
September 24th, 2009 at 3:41 am
I fell in love with someone who is married and he wants to get out from the marriage but his family is giving him emotional blackmail. He doesnt love his wife anymore for many reasons but they a child and he said his conscience is haunting him. He is confused. I said we need to separate but he wants me to be his friend. Gosh!!! what can you say?
September 26th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Theresa all I can tell you is that the best relationship u will have with that man is the one you are having now. If he gets out of his marriage and get officialy together with you then everything will change. I still wish sometimes that I would have never gotten married because when I did everything changed.
November 21st, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Theresa, I understand your situation. Now, he is good at the moment as you can see it… but when the time comes and he will be with you, he can be the same loving person or may change.. buts all marriage are like that… you just have to take your chances. its not you leaving a married life, its him.. so what do you have to loose?
December 7th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
what if he changes after years of being married should you just adapt or is that a cope out
December 15th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Natalia or whomever:
It is your choice to be gay. Although i do not have issues with people being gay, i have to say that being gay is not the norm. It is chemically and naturally normal as nature intended it to say “members of the opposite sex.” There is no natural reason for same sex couples. Hell in fact I think man and woman couples are down right un natural. But nature has paired us for attraction for pro creation. I mean we couldn’t be more different mentally emotionally or physically. Unfortunately that’s another discussion.
I guess what I’m trying to say is you cant be upset that people dont make everything peachy and PC for gays when you live in a hetero society/ country / planet.
Thats like Muslims that get all bent that there’s a Christmas tree in a government building.
The majority of us recognize Christmas for either religious reasons or tradition. you know? Lighten up. Dont expect the majority to change for the minority’s feelings.