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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with 11:48 (the long reply).  Men are socialized to be passive in their social relationships and many depend heavily on their wives and girlfriends to set up and help them maintain relationships, to a degree they do not even realize.  I know so many men who do not have any of their own friends, their wives arrange the family's social life 100% and they just go along and so it feels to them like they have real relationships.  They get divorced and suddenly find it's hard to maintain relationships with friends and kids -- they've never had to do it alone before!  So they give up because it's difficult or glom on to another girlfriend and go back to the passive role of letting her do everything.  [/quote]

This old trope. I don't know a single guy like this and I work mostly with men and only have brothers. [/quote]

It's not a trope. I lived it. My ex is floundering and has to bounce from woman to woman to have any semblance of a life. My father was this way, my brother is this way, they all have SAH wives, I'm wondering if it is more common in that set up?[/quote]

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