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Married to the Taliban
Why your husband hates you, part 2.
Welcome to part 2 of my series focusing on marriages, specifically how to have a long-lasting and happy one. In this article, I’m going to highlight one of the most widespread causes of dissatisfaction in marriages; a lack of freedom.
Everybody has their own values, the things which are more important to them than anything else. They are the things we need to have in order to be happy and fulfilled. We all hate anything which prevents us from achieving our values.
For many of us, one of the highest values is freedom. Simply being able to do as we please. So many married men I know complain that their spouses restrict their freedom, I think it must be in the top three causes of marital dissatisfaction and breakdown.
Obviously, if your husband thinks his freedom means he can flirt with and sleep with whoever he pleases, treat you however he pleases and go out whenever he pleases, he is an arsehole and not worth having as a husband anyway. But these articles are designed to help marriages that are worth having. The idea is that by reading these articles you can reduce the frequency with which hatred rears its ugly head and your husband wishes (just for a second perhaps), that you’d go away (perhaps forever). Living happily ever after isn’t the easiest thing in the world to…
