Can’t stop thinking about the tweet I saw that said like, “I am an adult, so I have two friends: my wife and my baby” like I’m sorry what the fuck can you even talk to a baby about???

The tweeter was A YEAR YOUNGER THAN I AM

(Also like on a serious note expecting your partner to be your ONLY source of friendship/comfort/advice/social connection seems like a recipe for burnout and disaster???)

Like, what about if you want to vent about a disagreement you’ve had with your wife? Who do you tell? Her? The baby??

...hang on wait no I’m having flashbacks to when I worked bar, these people tell the bartender

I remember one time this man telling me this whole story of how his bastard family betrayed and disowned him and the whole time he’s telling it I’m like....they were right though you’re /dreadful/

Save a bartender, make more adult friends

Oh my god oh my god

They want their wife to be all things to them - a friend, a lover, a therapist, an emotional sounding board, an advisor -

they want a swiss army wife

Are the straights okay

“Maybe having your spouse be your one and only source of affection, attention, validation, and all other social contact is not a particularly healthy situation for either party”

“...this woman is destroying the nuclear family”

I am begging these men to get a friend and go to therapy

Humans are social animals! We’re just a bunch of gross monkeys with lofty aspirations! Lean into it!