It's been working for me for a long time, son.
I think you're off base here.
I don't mean to imply that a man shouldn't talk to his wife. But the topics of those discussions should not be open-ended in my opinion. There are certain topics a man should discuss with a woman, and certain topics he should not. In my view, that applies to discussions with a wife, too.
Males and females are, and will always be, fundamentally different. They are not, and have never been, "equal."
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