Psychology says people who have no close friends outside of their spouse haven’t done anything wrong — they’ve simply built an arrangement where their partner is the friend, the confidant, the witness, the everything — and the burden on the spouse is invisible until something happens, and then everyone in the marriage discovers at once that one person cannot meet every emotional need of another no matter how good the love is
When a man discovered his wife's two-week absence left him completely alone with no one to call—not for emergencies, not for a beer, not even to complain about the game—he realized he'd unknowingly turned his marriage into a pressure cooker that neither of them saw coming.