{"id":80851,"date":"2024-09-14T14:10:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T07:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=80851"},"modified":"2024-09-14T14:11:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T07:11:03","slug":"i-completely-fell-out-of-love-with-my-wife-after-she-took-a-7-week-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/i-completely-fell-out-of-love-with-my-wife-after-she-took-a-7-week-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"I Completely Fell Out of Love With My Wife After She Took a 7-Week Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u00a0all started with a\u00a07-week vacation the man\u2019s wife took.\n\n
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A\u00a0man, 32, named Peter, wrote a\u00a0letter to\u00a0our editorial. He\u00a0shared his problem with\u00a0us and was asking our readers for their honest opinion and advice about his\u00a0family\u00a0situation.\n
Peter started his letter, saying, \u201cI\u00a0have been married to\u00a0my\u00a0wife Helen, 30, for 4\u00a0years, and we\u2019ve been together for 9\u00a0years in\u00a0total. She is\u00a0a\u00a0stay-at-home mom. We\u00a0have adorable twins, who\u2019re 1,5 years old, which has been incredibly\u00a0exhausting\u00a0for my\u00a0wife.
\nOne day, Helen said that she wanted a\u00a0solo\u00a0vacation\u00a0break for a\u00a0few weeks. She explained that she wanted to\u00a0travel to\u00a0different states during this break, visit her high school and college friends, go\u00a0to\u00a0different shows, and do\u00a0a\u00a0lot of\u00a0fun stuff just for herself.\u201d\n
Peter was totally understanding and agreed that his wife needed a\u00a0break. The man wrote, \u201cMy\u00a0wife asked if\u00a0I would be\u00a0fine with\u00a0it. I\u00a0agreed, but\u00a0I just asked if\u00a0she could make it\u00a0maybe a\u00a0couple of\u00a0weeks shorter, because 7\u00a0weeks coping with our 2\u00a0kids alone sounded really horrifying for\u00a0me, especially since\u00a0I had a\u00a0lot of\u00a0work and it\u00a0was also my\u00a0duty. I\u00a0work remotely, so\u00a0at\u00a0least that worked in\u00a0my\u00a0favor.\u201d\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Helen left and Peter was managing the kids on\u00a0his own.\n\n
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Peter goes on\u00a0with his story, saying, \u201cHelen and\u00a0I discussed more of\u00a0this topic for a\u00a0couple of\u00a0days, and in\u00a0the end\u00a0I ultimately agreed that she did deserve a\u00a07-week break because of\u00a0what she has been through the past few years.\u201d\n
Managing 2\u00a0kids turned out to\u00a0be\u00a0not games and fun for the man. He\u00a0confessed, \u201cAnd so\u00a0my\u00a0wife took her vacation. The first week taking care of\u00a0our twins alone was extremely difficult, and\u00a0I did feel like\u00a0I was losing my\u00a0mind, but I\u00a0survived. I\u00a0asked my\u00a0older sister to\u00a0come over and help me\u00a0from the second week\u00a0on. My\u00a0sister was honestly a\u00a0lifesaver, and I\u00a0am eternally grateful for her. When she video called me\u00a0the end of\u00a0the first week, I\u00a0basically broke down in\u00a0tears, so\u00a0this was a\u00a0sign for her that everything was going on\u00a0not very well, and she came to\u00a0the rescue.\u201d\n
The man had mixed feelings about the whole situation. He\u00a0revealed, \u201cSo\u00a0from the second week\u00a0on, my\u00a0sister decided to\u00a0stay over at\u00a0my\u00a0house and help me\u00a0more with my\u00a0kids. I\u00a0must confess that a\u00a0huge burden had been lifted off my\u00a0shoulders. I\u00a0was able at\u00a0least to\u00a0focus more on\u00a0my\u00a0urgent work, and\u00a0I did meet my\u00a0deadlines.
\nTo be brutally honest, I did not miss Helen at all. I felt emotionally and mentally relaxed. I should say, I had a lot of fun with my babies and my sister. I felt betrayed because my wife had actually gone on that 7-week vacation and left me alone. I was slowly falling out of love with my wife.\u201d\n\n
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Helen came back home to\u00a0find her husband being totally indifferent to\u00a0her.\n\n
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Peter goes on\u00a0with his story, saying, \u201cHelen did call multiple times while she was on\u00a0that vacation, and she tried to\u00a0give me\u00a0a\u00a0plenty of\u00a0advice about the kids. But this all seemed so\u00a0wrong to\u00a0me, especially when\u00a0I looked through her Instagram posts, where she posted her happy selfies at\u00a0different parties, concerts and dining out with her friends. The contrast between her life and mine was striking.\u201d\n
So, when the woman finally came back home, Peter was behaving like an\u00a0absolute stranger. The man confessed, \u201cWhen Helen was back from her 7-week break, she was super refreshed and recharged, but to\u00a0be\u00a0honest\u00a0I was exhausted and indifferent to\u00a0her. She was trying to\u00a0hug and kiss me\u00a0when she came back, which\u00a0I rejected because\u00a0I said\u00a0I wasn\u2019t feeling\u00a0it. The same level of\u00a0indifference remained in\u00a0our day-to-day life, and she probably noticed it\u00a0but didn\u2019t say anything.\u201d\n
Things went too far after some time. Peter revealed, \u201cTwo weeks later, Helen finally asked me\u00a0why\u00a0I was like this, and\u00a0I honestly told her\u00a0I didn\u2019t love her anymore. She apologized profusely for taking that 7-week vacation, and asked if\u00a0there was anything she could do\u00a0to\u00a0fix\u00a0it. I\u00a0immediately told her\u00a0no. We\u00a0went through some severe motions the next couple of\u00a0weeks, before\u00a0I finally decided that\u00a0I wanted a\u00a0divorce.\u201d\n\n
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Peter\u2019s decision was tough, but the man insisted on\u00a0it.\n\n
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The man wrote, \u201cMy\u00a0wife seemed devastated when\u00a0I brought up\u00a0the very topic of\u00a0divorce. Her reaction surprised me\u00a0because\u00a0I already told her\u00a0I don\u2019t love her anymore. She did try to\u00a0initiate our visits to\u00a0couples\u2019 therapy or\u00a0marriage counseling. But I\u00a0already started looking for a\u00a0divorce lawyer, and\u00a0I honestly didn\u2019t feel that there was something that could help our family not to\u00a0fall apart.\u201d\n
Peter added, \u201cI\u00a0spent some time thinking about everything, and I\u00a0am still sure\u00a0I want a\u00a0divorce. I\u00a0basically don\u2019t love my\u00a0wife anymore, and I\u2019m sure\u00a0I won\u2019t be\u00a0able to\u00a0start loving her again. At\u00a0this point, I\u00a0don\u2019t believe that any marriage counseling could fix\u00a0it.\u201d\n
Peter closed his letter, saying, \u201cI\u00a0want to\u00a0clarify one thing. Money was not an\u00a0issue at\u00a0all. I\u00a0do have a\u00a0high paying, though a\u00a0very stressful job. It\u00a0didn\u2019t bother me\u00a0how much money Helen spent on\u00a0her trip.
\nThe main issue was that\u00a0I was mentally overwhelmed coping with 2\u00a0small kids while\u00a0I was also working full-time. By\u00a0the end of\u00a0the first week, I\u00a0had lost my\u00a0sanity and even broke down in\u00a0tears when my\u00a0sister video called\u00a0me, and Helen did feel my\u00a0mental state at\u00a0that time, but it\u00a0never gave her a\u00a0clue that she must give up\u00a0on\u00a0her vacation and come back home to\u00a0be\u00a0with me\u00a0in\u00a0these hard times.\u201d\n\n
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And here\u2019s a\u00a0mind-boggling story of\u00a0a\u00a0woman, whose husband ruined their marriage by\u00a0asking her to\u00a0serve him bigger portions of\u00a0food for lunch.\u00a0Read more\u00a0to\u00a0find out why this has become such a\u00a0huge problem for our heroine.\n
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It\u00a0all started with a\u00a07-week vacation the man\u2019s wife took. \u00a9\u00a0wayhomestudio \/ Freepik A\u00a0man, 32, named Peter, wrote a\u00a0letter to\u00a0our editorial. He\u00a0shared his problem with\u00a0us and was asking our readers for their honest opinion and advice about his\u00a0family\u00a0situation. Peter started his letter, saying, \u201cI\u00a0have been married to\u00a0my\u00a0wife Helen, 30, for 4\u00a0years, and we\u2019ve been together for …\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":80852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moral-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80854,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80851\/revisions\/80854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}