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[quote=Anonymous]Don’t waste any time being frustrated with your wife for not making friends the way you think she should. That’s not your domain.

Focus on the only part that is your business, which is having to listen to her complain about it.

You should ask someone smarter like ChatGPT, but I take a couple approaches to my husband complaining about stuff I think he’s doing to himself:

1) just listen supportively because you’re the spouse and that’s part of the job. Once you’ve decided that you’re just listening supportively and not trying to give advice or come up with an answer, it gets easier. You’re probably a white collar typical dcum person and you’re trained to listen to problems, analyze them, and come up with solutions. This isn’t that. It’s a good skill and you can use it later with your kids.

2) draw whatever boundary you feel is appropriate. Find a nicer way to say “I’m tired of hearing about this but I care and I’m ready to do anything you ask me to do to help.” And probably there should be a bunch of 1 before 2 because you’re not an ahole.

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