That small talk stuff. When we lived in Minnesota a few years ago, it started bugging me that everyone always asked how you were and for some reason the instinct is always to just answer "fine, you?". Our neighbors of course always said the same thing and as I was walking to down the hall one day and one of the neighbors that I never talked to, just say "how are you" was walking towards me. Of course he said "How are you?" I stopped, looked him straight in the eyes and was totally honest "Actually not that great, I'm tired and worn out". He is facial expression was priceless. He just gave me an empty stare and then said "you know what? I'm not doing that well either".
After that he and I proceeded to just say hi and nice to see you when we met. No more of the asking without wanting to know
OP didn't ask for you to give her your opinion about her marriage, its obvious from what she wrote that she isn't happy with her husband. Stick to the subject matter and give her the answer to her question not your opinion or advice on a marriage you know nothing about. It's amazing how she wrote details for her reasons why but somehow all one could get out of that was he was 'internet viewing".
I don't think if you found your wife on the internet looking for casual sex , you would call it browsing..... ay?
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