The lonely housewives club is one of those clubs that nobody wants to be a member of, but many are. The women who belong to this, world renowned, club sometimes have nothing else in common except for the fact that their husbands have stopped giving them the attention and affection that they want.
What separates the lonely housewife, from the woman who is desperately unhappy in her marriage is everything else in the relationship. Their stories are so similar, they could actually be mistaken for the same story, but they are all very different people, living the same life.
Lonely housewives are usually happy in their relationship in every way that counts, except when it comes to their sex life. They have good hardworking husbands who take care of them, and who they consider to be their best friend. These couples take vacations together, they are emotionally supportive of each other, and they have immense respect for each other.
From the outside it looks like the perfect relationship. But from the inside, it looks completely different, especially to the wife. She can see this secure comfortable relationship as being unrelentingly torturous. As if the absence of her husband’s affection wasn’t painful enough, she also wrestles with her own guilt for feeling like she should be able to have it all, and not just be grateful and content with what she does have.
What complicates the situation further is how it sometimes becomes more difficult to live with the way things are as time goes on, or as people change. Even if the man has not changed, and was always a bit distant, the woman can find herself unable, or unwilling to continue doing without the attention, she agreed to give up when she married him.
Even for the unhappiest of women, all the positive things about the marriage make it very difficult to give up and simply walk away, even from something that causes pain on a daily basis.
After searching for ways to fix the problem, the wife of an indifferent man will come to terms with what she has and make the decision to stay or to leave. By deciding to stay, she understands that chances are good that she will never get what she needs or wants from her husband. She also knows there are places she can get it, but she will need to be sure she wants to take that step. For some people taking the step to cheat because they are with someone who will not give them what they need is completely justified. For others, it is not ever okay, but the prospect of never again feeling wanted is much worse.
There are some things in life that we want, but can do without; affection is not one of them. Whether a person cheats to get the affection they need, or not, they will usually find some way to drop out of the lonely housewives club.