US EditionAsking Eric: Alas, You Can’t Divorce Someone Else’s Husband
- A long-time friend says she has been friends about five years while living abroad, and asks `How can I salvage the friendship but ditch her husband?`
- The friend's husband talks over people, one-ups statements, and fails at turn-taking, a mutual friend confirmed this occurs even in his second language.
- His refusal to listen sparked a disagreement with the writer's husband, who now avoids small groups with the friend’s husband, causing the couple to decline invitations.
- Practical steps include letting the writer's husband stay home during invitations and arranging one-on-one friend dates, as advised by R. Eric Thomas, advice columnist.
- Because the writer values her friend and lives in a small expat circle, she rarely sees her and often makes excuses to decline invitations due to the friend's husband.
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Asking Eric: I worked hard to become less of a ‘handful’ for ex, then he goes and does this
Dear Eric: I was in a relationship for 21 years until my ex had a baby on me and I left him. During my relationship with my ex, I would see this guy from time to time, when me and my ex would break up. So, then he and I started dating and eventually we became a couple.
Asking Eric: I love my friend, but not her husband. How do we manage get-togethers?
Dear Eric: I’ve been good friends with a woman for about five years now; we live abroad. However, I am not and never have been a huge fan of her new husband.He talks over people or one-ups any statement and simply doesn’t listen. He can’t do turn-taking in conversation. I’ve asked a mutual friend if he is like this in his second language, and she confirmed he is.
Denver Post
Asking Eric: Friend wants to ‘divorce’ friend’s boorish husband
Advice columnist R. Eric Thomas answers his readers' questions in this February 2, 2026 edition of Asking Eric.
Sun-Sentinel
Orlando SentinelAsking Eric: I want to spend time with her without her clingy, overbearing husband
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