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<blockquote data-quote="Laner" data-source="post: 15672" data-attributes="member: 1932">I got together with a friend of mine this weekend. We normally take our boys out for a hike, but this time we left them at home with the women while we talked some business. On the drive home my wife said it was a good visit. In the past she had been troubled by my friends wife's anxiety. She is pregnant right now, so my wife had been giving her advice on keeping her anxiety low. She had been listening and implementing, and she told my wife that she feels so much better and feels she has more energy in general. The advice?- Don't ask your husband about business or money. They will talk to us when its that important. - Don't vote - we just had an election - and she said its not worth the trouble. Even going with her husband she found stressful. My wife can't vote, and has mentioned many times that she is happy about that. - Don't ask your husband what he talks about with his friends. Her pointed questions will always come across as paranoid, which puts up his defense, which will make her anxious; whats wrong? Why did he snap? Is it me?Anyway, it was good to see that my wife can have some positive influence on little spheres of my life that are outside our family unit.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Laner, post: 15672, member: 1932"] I got together with a friend of mine this weekend. We normally take our boys out for a hike, but this time we left them at home with the women while we talked some business. On the drive home my wife said it was a good visit. In the past she had been troubled by my friends wife's anxiety. She is pregnant right now, so my wife had been giving her advice on keeping her anxiety low. She had been listening and implementing, and she told my wife that she feels so much better and feels she has more energy in general. The advice? - Don't ask your husband about business or money. They will talk to us when its that important. - Don't vote - we just had an election - and she said its not worth the trouble. Even going with her husband she found stressful. My wife can't vote, and has mentioned many times that she is happy about that. - Don't ask your husband what he talks about with his friends. Her pointed questions will always come across as paranoid, which puts up his defense, which will make her anxious; whats wrong? Why did he snap? Is it me? Anyway, it was good to see that my wife can have some positive influence on little spheres of my life that are outside our family unit. [/QUOTE]

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