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[quote=Anonymous]If you really want to talk her down, I can send you my family court case number and she can see my DH’s antics. It would cure anyone of idealizing marriage.

She definitely needs to get off Instagram and out into the real world and just start interacting with real actual boys/men. Back in the day it was hard enough to be realistic with teen magazines and fashion magazines and wedding magazines, celebrity weddings, and early 2000s rom com movies. Now it must be impossible to really understand marriage when girls see what look like “real people” marriages on Instagram and don’t realize it’s just as fake as rom coms and magazines were.

Realistically, if she’s not going to get out there and date, a gap year as an au pair or a summer stint as a live-in nanny would be very curative. I saw babysitters and long term young adult long term houseguests piece together the reality of my challenging marriage and home life faster than I did. I realized things were off based on their reactions, not my own feelings, because my judgement was dimmed by years of being with someone who never should have been in a marriage.[/quote]

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