Wanting to feel safe in your own home, wanting to be able to come back and shed the hardened shell of the day, and not being able to that’s exhausting. Just having to brace for another fight when you walk through the door can make you feel alone in the relationship. I was in that boat; no matter what I did, it seemed either wrong o r not enough. Eventually I told her more than once that I felt alone in this relationship, and she said it was my fault I felt that way, that my feelings weren’t her problem.
