Tag: married but lonely

• He’d Forgotten He Could Be Like This

  Paul hadn’t planned to join a married dating site on a Tuesday evening in February. He’d planned to watch the end of a football match, drink one beer too many, and go to bed at ten. That was a Tuesday in the Whitmore household. That was how things went. His wife Karen was in the…

• Married but Lonely: When the Person Beside You Feels Like a Stranger

  The house is tidy. The kids are fed. The mortgage is paid on time. And Claire, 44, from Sheffield, goes to bed every night beside a man she has shared her life with for seventeen years — and feels profoundly, utterly alone. She’s not dramatic. She’s not unhappy in any way that would be easy…

• The Loneliest Place in Britain Isn’t a Bedsit. It’s a Marriage.

  There’s a particular kind of loneliness that only comes from being not alone. Not the clean, almost bracing loneliness of a Saturday night by yourself — takeaway on your lap, no one expecting anything of you. Not the loneliness of the spare room, the divorce flat with bare walls and a single plate. Those kinds…