My wife obsessively consumes US news. She’s so stressed but can’t turn off. What should I do? | Leading questions

Instead of asking her to step away from her distress, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith , could you suggest she channel it into action? Leading questions My wife is obsessed with everything that’s happening in the US. She literally spends all day sitting on the couch, watching videos and reading opinion pieces.

She’s originally from America and has been living abroad for 25 years and she has family in the US, so I get that she needs to feel connected to what’s happening. But it’s constant. Whether we’re eating, watching a TV show or movie, when we’re talking about something completely unrelated – everything, every topic, either starts or ends with outrage. I’ve told her she needs to take at least one day off all social media, but she won’t do that even for an hour. It stresses her out more and more every day, but she just keeps going back to it – and it has been really affecting me, more lately than ever.…