To think calling yourself “happily married” is usually a cover?

[ThatRedBeaker]

Every time I hear someone stress how “happily married” they are, I side-eye it. If you’re truly content, do you need to broadcast it so loudly? Feels like a cover story more often than not.

I think that’s something people who aren’t happily married tell themselves to make themselves feel better, tbh.

I don't see the issue.

I have been happily married for 32 years. No, I don't harp on about it, but I don't see it as a cover all of the time if someone else says it. Of course, it sometimes might be, but I wouldn't assume that.

That’s a really odd take OP.

Nah.

Nope. Unhappily married people are usually only too keen to tell you all about it IME.

It's just a meaningless phrase isn't it?

I’m happily married and I call myself happily married.

Two years ago I was unhappily married, and did not tell call myself happily married.

Have I somehow been gaslighting myself?