Perhaps I'm being too sensitive (I doubt it, but I could be wrong), so I will throw this out. My wife has gotten in the habit of giving "conditional gifts." Let me offer an example. For my birthday, she offered to take me on a trip to Cooperstown (which I would have enjoyed, being a baseball fan). However, at the end of her mentioning it, she threw in the "as long as you don't piss me off" condition. Needless to say, she got mad about something in the days leading up to my birthday....not only was there no trip to Cooperstown...there was nothing....literally nothing (no gift, no dinner, no card), just her saying "happy birthday," and that was literally it.
Similarly, this year on Father's Day, she was out of town for part of the day, and sent me a text message. I was in the back hard playing catch with my 5 year old son, watching him have the time of his life whenever the ball stayed in his glove, and I failed to hear her text message come through. Consequently, it was 20 mins before I responded to her (not that time was of the essence, her text was to the effect of "How's it going?"). As a result, she got furious, and when she got home, proclaimed that she had something for me for Father's Day but because I made her mad, she was returning it. 2 days later, she's still furious!
Am I nit picking here on this? This (combined with my other threads), has me on the verge of leaving. The more I read, the more convinced I am that my wife is borderline, with the dramatic mood changes at the drop of a hat, insistence that everyone is either 100% good or 100% evil, etc, etc. I can't take everything being conditioned upon me not "pissing her off," when that is just a reflection of the mood that she's in and rarely actually has much to do with me at all.
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Similarly, this year on Father's Day, she was out of town for part of the day, and sent me a text message. I was in the back hard playing catch with my 5 year old son, watching him have the time of his life whenever the ball stayed in his glove, and I failed to hear her text message come through. Consequently, it was 20 mins before I responded to her (not that time was of the essence, her text was to the effect of "How's it going?"). As a result, she got furious, and when she got home, proclaimed that she had something for me for Father's Day but because I made her mad, she was returning it. 2 days later, she's still furious!
Am I nit picking here on this? This (combined with my other threads), has me on the verge of leaving. The more I read, the more convinced I am that my wife is borderline, with the dramatic mood changes at the drop of a hat, insistence that everyone is either 100% good or 100% evil, etc, etc. I can't take everything being conditioned upon me not "pissing her off," when that is just a reflection of the mood that she's in and rarely actually has much to do with me at all.
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