I understand your loneliness. My spouse and I have been together for 35 years, but I feel ignored by her. She claims it’s because she doesn’t understand the things I am interested in. Even when I throw out multiple topics I don’t get conversations, I get monosyllabic responses. Yet when we are with friends she converses freely, oftentimes interrupting others to speak.
Her conversation at home is always about how sick she feels, sports or negativity comments. When I talk to her about how I feel she cries and says how much she loves me, and how she is going to do better. I think it might be her illness causing the negativity and the her obsession with her health.
I feel like a freak , because I am interested in spirituality, knowing how money is created and works, crypto, holistic medicine, and other esoteric subjects. I have learned about college women’s basketball, because that is what my spouse and friends like to talk about. I feel lonely and weird. I talk to strangers because I am lonely. I am outgoing and just want to have conversations.
This is a very old thread; you may want to start a new thread in the new members section and introduce yourself.
35 years is a long time. In some marriages people realize they aren't who they thought they were after about 2-5 years. In some marriages, two people can become completely different people after around 10 years, and it may take 5 years for them to really realize it happened. Or, one person changes, and the other doesn't realize it till some cloudy sunday morning, unexpectedly, when everything they thought was a certain way, turns out to be another.
It's a tricky thing when two people have grown in different directions. And I think it's also tricky, when, they've learned ways to work around that, while still growing in different directions.
I think Universally, as Americans, however, we tend to want things, 'fixed,' or, 'repaired,' or somehow mitigated rather quickly. Just like my words right now, can reflect a certain amount of knowledge, but, they can't fix things, anymore than the word, 'wrench,' itself, could be applied to tighten a bolt.
Perhaps, there may be something worthwhile in, simply accepting the situation as it is; and, for a time, or at times, perhaps look at it as, a completely hopeless and utterly unsolvable problem; and then, go from there. That's not to say there may not be an answer, a solution, or a way of changing things for the better for both parties involved, but, at the least, it's a counter-intuitive way of approaching things, that is very uncommon, in a world, where, it's very, very common, for each successive solution to a problem, to turn out to become the next new problem itself.
Anyway, we have a chatroom here, if you are interested in that sort of thing; I can't seem to find the link to it, at the moment. And, it can be quiet around here, it's an older forum, but, go ahead and introduce yourself if you'd like to stick around.