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The marriage club
I know now, what I had always suspected, that marriage is a club. At its worst it's a place where couples do everything in incestuous little groups of six or eight, where locations change but the faces don't. At it's best, the marriage club is a source of support for a newly-wed woman.
Marriage is a shock. It's not easy for two people to attempt to meld as a couple. Your wonderful new husband, who you had thought so well trained, is showing an alarming tendency to degenerate into a congenitally flawed male. He clips his toenails in bed, stays up too late and falls asleep on the sofa, and has to be reminded to clean his teeth or take a shower. Long walks, hand in hand, have vanished along with pink roses and surprise dinners and you don't know how to cope.
One grey day, not so many after your honeymoon plane has landed, you wake up feeling miserable, isolated and trapped. On top of all these emotions is guilt. Only a few weeks before, you had been promising undying love in front of smirking friends and teary relatives but now you wonder what it's all about.
Keeping it bottled up is not the solution. Nervously, you consider mentioning the problem to a friend. You don't want her to think that you are unhappy or teetering on the brink of divorce but who else can you talk to? A single girlfriend might draw the wrong conclusions.
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