“I want you to read this article and tell me what you think,” my wife texted me. She had sent me an article published in Harper’s Bazaar entitled, “Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden.” The article details how girlfriends and wives have become the sole emotional support person for a generation of friendless men. I have a feeling my wife sent me the article for one line in particular: “Men don’t usually put the effort into maintaining friendships once they’re married,” the article quotes one wife as saying. “The guys at work are the only people other than me that my husband even talks to.” It was a harsh indictment of the state of my own post-marriage friendships.
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