The essence of marriage is closeness and intimacy. Yet many couples reject closeness and shun intimacy as though it were a dread disease.
In a sense, that’s what it is to these people, for they are afflicted with a kind of psychological malady.
As one prominent psychoanalyst explains, “Some people have an intense fear of marriage, of emotional closeness. They may be able to live together with someone of the opposite without apparent anxiety, but with marriage their anxiety becomes acute.
“For some the fear is so intense they actually feel claustrophobic, overwhelming shut in. One man said that as soon as the marriage ceremony was over, he became depressed. He told me he felt like a child locked in a closet, desperately trying to get out”.
This man really had to get out. Though claiming to love his wife, he had such a violent reaction to marriage, and he was forced to get an annulment.
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