My husband is addicted to DearCupid and is an aunt on this site. How do I bring this up to him?

A female age 41-50, anonymous writes:

Hi everyone. Late at night my husband gets out of bed. His sleep has been getting worse. I'm a pretty deep sleeper, so I don't ever get up to check on him when he goes downstairs at night. All I know is that he gets up around one in the morning and I think he comes back to bed by four. He usually then sleeps in, and he has even been late to work a few times. He told me he might get a demotion because his performance at work has been suffering. He just looks tired. I asked him the other day what he does when he gets out of bed, and he said he usually watches TV. Well, today (just 30 minutes ago), I checked our browser history and found out he is actually spending hours at night on this site, DearCupid. From the looks of it, he asks many questions about our relationship and about his past before we met, and about his worries regarding the future...Some of the questions I don't even understand where they're coming from. He gives advice as well that seems to me to be useful. He never brings up any of this stuff with me. He always seemed like a happy but increasingly tired person; now I'm realizing there's an entire world in him that's suffering. I don't know how to bring this up to him-that I now know he spends hours almost every night on an internet help site. I don't know if I should ask him to see a counselor (In the daytime!) or what, but I know that this has become a bigger problem than simply being addicted to the internet, given the choice of site he's frequenting. I actually hope he sees this question I'm asking. I think his conscience will recognize that it's me. How should I bring this up to him? If it didn't interfere with his work, I'd not have such a big concern, but of course I am also worried that he has a blind spot of unhappiness and worry that he does not express openly. Ironic that I have turned to this site as well to ask: What to tell him when I bring up this new discovery?

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