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35, 6'2", 175lbs, dark blond hair, blue eyes, white British.
My wife and I are friends, we laugh a lot, similar sense of humour, similar ideas of fun. But we're basically 1. Travel partners and 2. Therapist - client.
It's my fault, I created the situation myself by being a sort of stoic person who represses negative emotions, but it's made me in to a massive crutch. She is scared of any negative emotion I might feel or express because it would threaten/disrupt her mental health. I'm therefore constantly cheerful even when I'm not. I mean, when a one of my parents died after about a week I just repressed all the grief because she was clearly becoming agitated and angry that I wasn't being emotionally "available" for her to dump on me about work or her family or whatever.
I feel emotionally neglected (and admittedly somewhat sexually neglected, that sort of connection with someone else would be very nice but not essential.)
All this said, I don't actually want another person just to vent at and talk about my relationship. I've said about all I want to say about it. I just want some escape. I want to talk about books or travelling or history or literature or science or sex or whatever else. I admit I want to feel INTERESTING. I'm tired of saying "I read this interesting thing today" or "I heard this great program on the radio about..." to be met with "hm... My colleagues are terrible... What do you think about this lamp for the living room..?"
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