couple things
Yeah, looks like it was supposed to say 1ft not 1 meter, a meter is a significant, nice personal space for strangers, distance.
And also,
Get back by 8pm? Isn't that a thing that you should tell all Japanese employers? or are employers in Japan right now not fucking horrible
Case by case aside, wouldn't the issue not be the couple of wife and husband, but all the fucking pressures and issues assaulting them from outside? Wouldn't addressing those be more effective to fucking allow the wife and husband to deal with whatever's going on between them on a regular fucking (literal and not) basis?