When your partner is the easy target

Or how we can get into a really negative spiral about our other halves

Whenever I am with other women I find there is often a tendency to talk about one thing. Not skin creams. Not children. Not work. (These all come up but are often dismissed because there is a need to cut to the chase content wise). But partners. And specifically the things that drive us mad about them.

It feels good this bonding. The listing of all the ways in which our partners disappoint us. These feelings are often vented with a drink in hand. Or a fag. Or simply on a park bench watching the kids throw sticks in the mud.

‘He farts in front of the TV.’