Husband's complaint: Wife ignoring marriage for child - Akron - Fwix
Q: Help me. My wife and I have been married for nearly 10 years. We have one child, a 3-year-old boy. Ever since our son was born, our marriage has been slowly slipping away as she has become more and more absorbed into motherhood. She dotes on him constantly, talks to him constantly, praises him for every little thing he does and does things for him he's perfectly capable of doing for himself. If I bring up the fact that our marriage is becoming an illusion, she gets very angry at me, accusing me of having no appreciation for the demands of motherhood and so on. I don't see many demands except those she is putting on herself. What can I do? A: A couple of months ago, following a talk I gave in Georgia, a woman told me she had been offended by my many references to mothers who are enmeshed in their children's lives. These women, when I talk to them about this issue, and if they are able to bring some degree of objectivity to the conversation, admit that they have vir...