Tag: emotional neglect in marriage

• Passion vs Companionship: The Quiet Trade Almost Every Long Marriage Makes

  Most marriages swap passion for companionship without ever deciding to. Here’s what that quiet trade really costs, and why so many people ache for the spark. Nobody stands at the altar and chooses companionship over passion. You get both, or you think you do, and you assume the two will travel together for the rest…

• Staying Together “For the Kids” Might Be Quietly Teaching Them the Wrong Thing

  Staying in an unhappy marriage for the children feels noble. But what are they really learning about love by watching? An honest look from Illicit Encounters. It’s the line that ends a thousand late-night conversations with yourself. Things aren’t right. They haven’t been right for years. But the children are eight and eleven, and you’d…

• She Hadn’t Been Asked About Her Day in Years. Then a Stranger Did.

  Lisa from Sheffield was forty-seven the first time she noticed that nobody had asked about her day in roughly a decade. It wasn’t a single event. There was no dramatic turning point. It was a Tuesday in February, and she’d come home from a particularly difficult day at the school where she worked as a…