Marrying A Wrong person can be draining

Previously

…He craved peace, a quiet harbor, a partnership built on honesty and mutual respect. He was beginning to fear that Eleanor, with her relentless pursuit of external validation and her apparent inability to connect with the emotional realities of others, offered not a harbor, but a storm. The mirror, he thought, could reflect beauty, but it could also distort truth, and he was no longer willing to be blinded by its deceptive shimmer. The realization settled upon him, heavy and undeniable: the woman he thought was ‘the one’ might, in fact, be the very thing that would drain his peace, leaving him adrift in a sea of his own making.