Avoiding the marriage comparison trap

When my wife and I got married, we constantly heard certain questions from other married couples. Where do you live? Where do you work now? Are you still doing that? Where are you going for holiday? At the onset we didn’t think much of it. However with time, we would almost sense a comparison game going on with some (not all) of the questions. We talked about it as we drove home one evening. We had just bumped into a couple that had openly asked us where we lived at the time. When we responde...