do you simple want to vent about the problem and have his support? if you really just want your husband’s support – or at least feel like he’s with you on the journey of the problem – then you must preface the problem to him before you actually start communicating it to him, you need to tell him that you do not want him to fix it, just listen. if you tell a man to listen, he can do that. that is a task, and men think by tasks, so if you want a solution to that issue give him that task. if you just want to share the issue 