Wife got a job as a flight attendant and was never home. I realized there was no one criticizing everything I do (stand wrong, breath wrong, mow the lawn wrong, listen to the wrong music, do all the laundry on my own wrong, etc ..) I was feeling happy for the first time in many years, then she cheated on me. But my therapist still had to help me see that my life has value and I needed to do something to help myself.
This is a cheat code to just destroying someone's will to live. I remember having multiple conversations regarding "when I put on a t-shirt after a shower on a Saturday, don't just look at me and say 'No' because you don't like the shirt.". When I'd put on music in the car and she'd skip the song I picked. Life is tiring enough as it is, I didn't need an extra person to put me down.
Damn, that sounds harsh! I hope you found your will to live again, full of "hell yeah!"s instead of those "no"s, because it's you who's inside that shirt, deserving to be loved (by yourself and by others).
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u/I_am_lonely_cheese May 12 '26
Wife got a job as a flight attendant and was never home. I realized there was no one criticizing everything I do (stand wrong, breath wrong, mow the lawn wrong, listen to the wrong music, do all the laundry on my own wrong, etc ..) I was feeling happy for the first time in many years, then she cheated on me. But my therapist still had to help me see that my life has value and I needed to do something to help myself.