Why do some people/couples stay together?
It baffles me. Yesterday, while getting a tire replaced and sitting in a large, busy tire shop, a couple in their 50s came in and sat across from me in the waiting room.
They looked to be upper middle class and both were attractive and neatly dressed, but the man looked stressed/angry and the woman looked nervous and filled with angst…. or so it appeared to me.
Sure enough, one minute in, the man turned to his wife (I assume they were married) and began to berate her for getting a flat tire and being unable to take care of getting it repaired on her own… all in an angry/spiteful and condescending tone and all loud enough for anyone of the group of customers in the waiting room to hear.
The woman tried to defend herself by saying the she didn’t know what she had ran over, and she made the appointment to get it fixed, but that he insisted he come with her to make sure it got done right.
Her response set him off and he started saying how useless she was, that in 15 years she had never done anything right, blah, blah, blah… she just sort of shrunk in on herself and looked away… I thought she was going to cry and to be honest, I was ready to tell the a$$wipe to STF up, but knowing it was none of my business and I’d only make matters worse, I kept my mouth shut.
So why do two people who obviously don't like each other, stay together? I don’t get it.
They looked to be upper middle class and both were attractive and neatly dressed, but the man looked stressed/angry and the woman looked nervous and filled with angst…. or so it appeared to me.
Sure enough, one minute in, the man turned to his wife (I assume they were married) and began to berate her for getting a flat tire and being unable to take care of getting it repaired on her own… all in an angry/spiteful and condescending tone and all loud enough for anyone of the group of customers in the waiting room to hear.
The woman tried to defend herself by saying the she didn’t know what she had ran over, and she made the appointment to get it fixed, but that he insisted he come with her to make sure it got done right.
Her response set him off and he started saying how useless she was, that in 15 years she had never done anything right, blah, blah, blah… she just sort of shrunk in on herself and looked away… I thought she was going to cry and to be honest, I was ready to tell the a$$wipe to STF up, but knowing it was none of my business and I’d only make matters worse, I kept my mouth shut.
So why do two people who obviously don't like each other, stay together? I don’t get it.
