Jessie Stephens

I want to know.

So Corcoran Harrell says that the dissatisfied wife isn't entirely new.

What is a little bit new is the normalisation of settling for being utterly dissatisfied and being quite open with your mates about it, being like I hate my husband but we're still married.

Holly, is this a phenomenon that you've noticed?

Holly, do you hate your husband?

You've interviewed a lot of midlife women.

I want to know if they are quietly quitting their marriages.

I wonder if that's the case and if there is also, not that it's status, but that being openly dissatisfied with your job or your marriage or your house or something in your life.

is kind of allowed now.

Like have women always felt like this?

Did our grandmothers, did our great grandmothers feel like this?

But they weren't allowed to say it out loud.

And so now there's a language around women sitting there at a dinner table with their friends going, I hate my husband.

Because reading this, I don't think you could read this and not recognise it.

And my question was whether or not it's a gender thing.

Is it that there's something going on with men that they don't have the friendships entering midlife, that they are not strengthening the muscle of communication, that women feel lonely because they don't have someone to talk to?

Or is this a dynamic that men and women are both responsible for?

I think...

And is it a rebellion against this push of marriage is hard, marriage is hard?

We grew up, I think, millennials and Gen X grew up with it is something you need to work at.