AITA For Saying Marriage Hasn’t Added Any Value to my life?
I (45) have a 15 year old son. He’s recently been dating a girl from his school for some time now. A few days back, we were at the house after his track meet, and the topic of his girlfriend came up, and he said that dating (in general) seemed like the best thing in the world like it’s made out to be. Ovvioudly he likes his girlfriend, but he also has a lot of other things going for him — Lots of friends, sports, etc. When some people’s lives are just their relationship, it’s a bigger deal to them.
I related it to myself, because I think I’m a pretty social person. Even if I didn’t meet my wife, I don’t think I’d ever really be alone. I told him that getting married/in a relationship never really made my life better, or more full than it already was. And especially because I’m at the age where people are getting divorced and stuff, but I still am in contact and meet regularly with my friends from Jack and Jill (like 25-30 years ago) and college. Conversation continued. When I said the part about relstionsuops not making my life better, my wife walked down. Didn’t think anything of it bevause she didn’t say anything.
Later when our kids were locked away in their rooms, my wife brougjy it up. I could tell in her tone that she seemed to have taken the comment personally. I told tried to reassure by saying obviously I love her, and that she should be happy my life doesn’t revolve around her. She just said “Right“ and went to bed. Shes been kind of ‘meh’ with me since. I apologized, even though i dont think I said anything wrong… We were also having a private conversation …
AITA?