Married folk, what's the most underrated part of marriage?

A lot of reasons... financial, loneliness, shared interests. We made a somewhat successful short film together. Each of us was raised with a lot of neglect and parental conflict and we sort of 'recognized each other' in that way. She helped pull me out of some extreme social anxiety. I didn't start forming my own personal friendships until I was in this relationship. My partner and I never really gelled, though. It seems like she never quite gets me. Most of the time she reads my signals as hostile when I am actually anxious. She gets hostile, too, whenever she feels off. At this point, we ignore each other instead of talking to each other. Most conversations turn into fights where I'm trying to keep our focus on our life goals or educate her on how I work and she tries to tear me down one unrelated issue at a time. Neither of us can afford to move on, though. Poverty sucks.

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