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Married 8 months & feeling lonely
My husband has always worked a lot at a car shop and loves working on his car with his friends in his spare time but this was never really an issue before we were married. We work somewhat opposite schedules and have his daughter on our days off together so we don't get a lot of alone time. Lately he had been spending any spare time he has at his friends shop working on their cars rather than with me. I am ok with alone time but how do I tell him I am feeling very lonely and somewhat neglected? Is it normal to feel lonely in your first year of marriage?
Re: Married 8 months & feeling lonely
I'm with PP. You maybe didn't notice before you got married what was really going on. It happens.
Is there a night of the week that you can schedule a weekly date night? You don't have to actually go out every week, but at least have t
Did you not believe he would still spend as much time with the cars after the wedding? Regardless, schedule time. Maybe always do dinner together or an hour of couch snuggle time, etc. Make time that I'd car and technology free so you are both passing
I went through something similar when I first got married. Shortly after we got married my husband started working out and lifting weights non-stop. He had worked out before but it wasn't something he took seriously. He would got to w
This is how our entire second year of marriage went and I had NO friends to talk to either. I almost left my husband over it, but decided on couple's counseling and talking it out (which took almost a year to see any results). Finally late last year my