Where do you get your emotional support from?

[Misty9]

...if not your dh? Mine just can't do this part and I wondered if that's common and where else people get emotional support from?

Depends what you mean but I think it's healthy to have emotional support and love from friends and family too. It's not good to expect just one person to provide all your emotional needs.

Nobody. Its hard.

Friends

Dh, family( siblings) and a few close friends.

My mum and DH. Though with both, I usually have to tell them what kind of support I need ("don't offer solutions, just sympathy please")

DP, and close friends.

Female friends. Daughter, now she's an adult.

H is very good with practical support and has come good in extreme situations (bereavement, serious employment issue) but is hopeless with low to medium level emotional support - tells me what I'm doing wrong rather than just letting me offload. Not helpful.

I'm really lucky when it comes to emotional support. DH isn't great at it but does try, bless im. My DM, 3 Sisters and bestie are all wonderful when I need it, which thankfully isn't too often.

Just myself.

Nobody. I don't want to bother my friends with it, so I keep all my problems to myself.

Nobody here, too, but when I was married, I got it from him.

Mainly my husband but a bit from friends (woman's type stuff), the children and our lovely very elderly and very wise neighbours. I'm resilient and rarely need emotional support though.

My 'karate family' (very close friends with several of them)

2 best friends.

My eldest son, for some stuff.

And a bit strangely perhaps, occasionally from XH ( he was always pretty good with emotional support tbh)

Husband / mother / mates