‘If my husband died, it would solve all my problems.’ This is the secret thought many unhappily married women are having right now.
I’m not talking women scheming to murder their husbands but those who fantasise about a car accident. A sudden but painless illness. A heart attack in his sleep.
Something that gets rid of their problem without them being the person blamed for breaking up the family.
Therapists hear versions of the death fantasy confession often – particularly from women in long marriages with children, mortgages, ageing parents and lives that are so intertwined, leaving just doesn’t seem possible.
It’s an escape
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