So my husband and are friends with this couple and the guy is emotionally abusive toward his wife.
He blows up at her in front of us and it's really uncomfortable. I said something to him about it once and he blew up at me.
Anyway, tonight we were meeting them for dinner and they were running a minute or two late because she's feeling under the weather. I watched him belittle her the whole way down the road as they were walking toward us and then they didn't speak for the ten minutes it took us to walk to the restaurant.
I feel bad for her. He treats her like shit, but blows it off with, "this is how married people act". It's making me not want to be friends with him.
Everyone's telling me to stay out of it, but it's hard to watch him treat her so badly, especially because she doesn't deserve it.
What do?
>>18729900
thats not how married people act, i think that husband has controlling issues, she should try to find someone else, because she cant live her life like that.
>>18729900
She's probably a masochist and enjoys it.
You see the reverse happen all the time with genders switched as well, most pussy-whipped guys are also masochists. Don't get involved, it's simply part of their dynamic. If she hated it so much she would leave.
>>18729906
Abused people usually have trouble leaving an abusive relationship. But it's something she has to do. So stay out of it OP but maybe stop seeing them.