Brevity by Dan Thompson for April 01, 2012
March 31, 2012
April 02, 2012
Transcript:
Advanced Marital Arts- Open In 10 Easy lessons you'll master: Silent treatment, flirting with ex on Facebook, finding her email password. Mantras include: "you don't understand me at all," "my mother was right about you," "I didn't even like her." "I have not let myself go"
Silent Treatment was the only victory I had over my ex-wife.I told her plainly and firmly that is she pulls that stunt one more time then our marriage was over, and she damn well knew I meant it and never did it again. Of course, I was savvy to keep away when she was too irate to speak, that’s plain sensible. But playing that power game out of simple spite, nah, no way. No effort to tell me what’s upsetting her is plain wrong and unforgivable and is a marriage terminator.I have heard women gleefully tell stories how they pull this one to force their husbands to figure out how they have transgressed “the Rules”, but even then won’t engage with them when they have figured out the problem. These games can go on for days and weeks. That is no longer a wife IMO.(BTW, that was not the reason our marriage finished.)