{"id":1987,"date":"2016-07-23T04:47:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T11:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2016-07-23T04:47:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T11:47:28","slug":"retired-husband-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"Retired Husband Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1988\" \/><\/a>Retired Husband Syndrome\u2014the term was coined in 1984 by Dr. Charles Clifford, who, writing in the Western Journal of Medicine, described wives of the newly retired who said things like \u201cI\u2019m going nuts\u201d and \u201che\u2019s under my feet all the time.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Clifford said these women reported \u201cheadaches, depression, agitation, palpitations and lack of sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evidently, the condition is prevalent in Japan, too, where they have their own name for it (Shujin Zaitaku Sutoresu Shoukougu), which loosely translates One\u2019s Husband Being at Home Stress Syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s even a book about it. Miriam Goodman wrote \u201cToo Much Togetherness\u201d in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to address the topic head-on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoney,\u201d I asked her. \u201cDo you have retired husband syndrome?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I under your feet all the time?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow run along and make sure you get everything on that list\u2014don\u2019t forget the mail. I\u2019ll be at my sister\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Husband Syndrome\u2014the term was coined in 1984 by Dr. Charles Clifford, who, writing in the Western Journal of Medicine, described wives of the newly retired who said things like \u201cI\u2019m going nuts\u201d and \u201che\u2019s under my feet all the time.\u201d Clifford said these women reported \u201cheadaches, depression, agitation, palpitations and lack of sleep.\u201d Evidently, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}