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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH does not drive.  We are a one car family.  Sometimes it sucks but I knew that before we married.  I'm not sure how anyone can claim they were somehow done wrong.  And I'm no faultless angel.

You sound very angry, controlling, and bitter.[/quote]
Perhaps...will admit that I feel DW should have placed our marriage first - believe that is the union/relationship that should be the core of the family. Maybe that makes me controlling. Maybe that makes DW/MIL controlling - I guess it comes down to perspective.[/quote]

I don't see how my DH not driving is downgrading our union/relationship from being the core of the family.  Is your car the core of your family?? Or of your love/protectiveness for each other?  I'm just sitting here shaking my head because I can't imagine any circumstances in which my DH would not move heaven and earth to be there for me and for our family.\

It seems to me, OP, that you have let driving become some sort of crucible upon which you have hung the greater good of your family and relationship.  Why is that?  When something takes on so much symbolism, there must be more to it.  Do you feel the "load" is not being carried here?  Then sit down and really think about it and communicate about it.  It's not about a car, is it?[/quote]

No, it's not about the car or driving. You're not getting it. It's about any issue that might later restrict your future choices that you could have foreseen, but didn't. You are so hung up on defending your non-driving DH and your support of him, you're overlooking OP's point. The issue could be anything and in this case, it just happens to be driving that's triggering OP's limitations. It 
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