Spring Riding in a Carriage

I think the lady is very dependent on her husband. She wants her husband to bring satisfaction and happiness for her. She does not feel satisfied for Whatever her husband did for her and she always complains that her husband is selfish and he does not care too much about her. I think she feels really hopeless about  her life because she expects her happiness from her husband. If somebody only depends on someone else to have happiness, she or he will never be happy. She needs to make herself happy by herself instead of expecting from other. I feel like that this couple seem to be bound by something which makes them unmovable and free-less. In the article, it says that " a deadline is a  sign telling me I must not trespass upon the affairs of others. I feel that the lady trespass the affairs of her husband. Even though they are couple, they are themselves individually also. I think the lady over-intrude her husband's mental world, which also makes him not breathe. His husband also really feels tired and hopeless sitting along her bedside and taking care of her. He seems that he can not escape his wife's irrationality. I feel like that close relationship might become abusive relationship if they depend on each other too much for happiness. I think everyone needs to respect others' mental world and they need to satisfy themselves depend on themselves.


Discuss question

How do you interpret the cage mentality in the article?


When you finds out that someone is too irrationally intrusive in your mental world and she/he has a good relationship with you , what you need to do ?