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Agree with you. Otherwise, it was totally puzzling to me a simplistic, judgmental view calling him a jerk as a top comment.

Don't know how many people have been married a long time here (i.e. > 10 years). Looking at the responses, it seems to me not that many.

Thankfully, my marriage is several orders better than his was. But still I can perhaps see where the conditions are coming from.

Just to take an example - C(3) - you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest if I request it.

I can see that for whatever reasons any fights between a husband (who works from home) and wife start when the husband is nicely all set to begin the day's work. It may be over a trivia discussion (perhaps because the husband has some work related frustration) or it could be the result of something building up. Now as a husband who is working from home, does not even have the choice to go to work elsewhere, in such a situation. And the argument/discussion/fight won't end until one person leaves the place. And countless hours can get lost, for a trivia thing.



It's a pretty safe bet that most people reading this know a couple living under terms a lot like these. Right now. Today.

The fact that we're often not aware of it doesn't change the reality.

When it comes to other people's relationships, the one thing you can be absolutely sure of is that you don't really understand them.




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